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posted by [personal profile] redbird at 12:45pm on 2017-07-04
How the hell did Hawthorne let that piece of idiocy into print? I read this to [personal profile] cattitude, who said "I hope he meant that ironically," but even if so…if he'd stopped after "no mystery" I wouldn't be thinking "Didn't he know Emerson and Thoreau?"
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posted by [personal profile] selki at 02:45pm on 2017-07-04
Not to mention overlooking slavery as a shadow or gloom over his supposedly perfect USA.
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posted by [personal profile] redbird at 04:22pm on 2017-07-04
That's more or less what I was thinking: that "no mystery" is not as objectionable or blinkered as the "no shadow, no gloom" part. It's still settler colonialism ignoring the deaths of the pre-European inhabitants, but I can believe he wasn't aware of that, and have trouble believing any adult American in 1860 was unaware of slavery: the Civil War was still slightly in the future, but the recent past included "bloody Kansas."
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