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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: 2009-01-05 03:41 pm (UTC)Yes, exactly. Twilight's problematic, but I was at dinner last night with some friends who were all talking about how they hadn't read it, but they'd heard it was virulently anti-feminist, and I just wanted to scream. The books are problematic as hell, but honestly, do we have these groupthink reactions to Heinlein? Tolkien? Pullman? I could go on naming authors whose books have massive gender problems, but (a) aren't Mormon, (b) aren't women, and (c) aren't popular among women and girls.