Date: 2009-01-26 06:34 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Thank you. I admit to looking for reassurance that it was reasonable to have different standards for mainstreamed subjects than for marginalized ones. I'll have to think about the differences between drawing elements from mythology and setting a story in an historical time. I would feel very, very, uncomfortable if Alexander had rummaged through the a First People's cultural background to pick up a few names and images for his stories, and for me what is important is something you mentioned in your OP--doing harm and defending it as art. Dickinson might have been offended by Alexander's tactics, but I couldn't believe that he was "hurt." This isn't true for other victims of cultural appropriation.
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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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