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Gnomic Utterances. These are traditional, and are set at the head of each section of the Guidebook. The reason for them is lost in the mists of History. They are culled by the Management from a mighty collection of wise sayings probably compiled by a SAGE—probably called Ka’a Orto’o—some centuries before the Tour begins. The Rule is that no Utterance has anything whatsoever to do with the section it precedes. Nor, of course, has it anything to do with Gnomes.
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Date: 2008-12-22 02:30 am (UTC)An obvious analogy might be movies that are rated R, or even PG-13: there's nothing wrong with them, but there's a recognition that some of the things that arise in the movie might not be appropriate for people at a certain age to process—violence, sex, or even issues. Having read, been scarred by, and subsequently recovered from Heinlein, it's my feeling that there's plenty in his writing to enjoy...but that I wouldn't hand it to my son and say "read this" until I was certain he had the mental faculties to critically assess Heinlein's gender roles.
And again, from a different tack: you say that one shouldn't throw out Casablanca just because of some anti-feminist moments. But would you throw out a movie for a single moment of non-consensual nudity? I'm cheating here, because I happen to know from an earlier conversation that that's exactly how you feel about MASH, if I recall it correctly. Why throw out one but not the other?