On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 11:49 AM, raghu <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Jim Devine <[email protected]> wrote: >> We should note that there's a mirror-image phenomenon: there's a >> likely-larger contingent of U.S. society that wants to defend >> Zimmerman to the death. >> > > > Is this like the OJ trial in reverse? Or the Bonfire of the Vanities? > > (Bad) fiction played out in real-life as a tragedy (or farce?)?
I dunno, but I liked Bonfire. His _A Man In Full_ was also interesting. But I'll leave its quality to the lit crit types like Doug. Race -- and racism -- are such important phenomena in U.S. society, that we regularly see reenactments of the OJ trial in different forms and to different degrees. -- Jim Devine / "When truth is nothing but the truth, it's unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world. In nature there are always so many other irrelevant things mixed up with the essential truth." -- Aldous Huxley _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
