[Desdemona]

Desdemona: I hope that I did not suggest lewdness as entertaining.

Not in any way.

My apologies on an incomprehensible post. It's a little difficult to concentrate amidst chaos.

The entire idea that fiction has nothing to do with morality is absurd on its face and goes well beyond Louis B. Mayer (who may not have denegrated the US in his movies, but...). Read the latest Tom Wolfe novel. It says a lot about morality - and lack of it - in the US.

[sittnick]

Read the latest Tom Wolfe novel. It says a lot about morality - and lack of it - in the US.

I had obtained the audiobook version of Wolfe's "I am Charlotte Simmons." 90% utterly compelling. On the other-hand, extremely coarse (which is even worse when listening in a car or on headphones, no way do my kids hear this one). On the other hand, I can understand how Wolfe was trying to make his points, and although the behaviour may well be distilled and concentrated compared to real life (Dupont is more like a combination of schools all rolled into one.), it is not as exagerrated as some of the detractors and critics think. (One critic couldn't believe that Charlotte was so sheltered that she had not seen a Cosmopolitant magazine. Well, I knew one girl at my college (in 1987) who didn't know what a Frito was! On the other hand, Charlotte's 15 year old Kaypro would not have been able to log into the university's computer system in any practical way. Wolfe needs new fact checkers for that stuff.)

A book worth reading for anyone thinking of sending a daughter away to school.