Word: disgusting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Carter's disgust turns quickly to sadistic pleasure in suffering: he becomes "infected with hysteria" at the "wildly funny" thought of being "kicked in the balls by a giraffe!" The whole appealing incident is, for him, a "good, dirty joke." Later, he is goaded by his wife into promising some sort of corrective action, but even at that point his only real concern is that "any carelessness...must be brought home to the offender...
...been by sexual aberration (homosexuality is a major theme in each of his first three novels). One would like to think, as I suggested earlier, that this new novel was prompted by a need to escape the traditionalist critical niche. And yet it may well be that the violent disgust with modern Britain (he is disgusted, mind you, not angry) that Mr. Wilson expresses in The Old Men at the Zoo is entirely genuine, and not just a calculated shock to England's Aunt Ednas. If so, Mr. Wilson's usefulness as a social observer and his excellence...
...another race." But the destruction of one myth only created a more complex modern myth-that of the flawed, wounded hero on the order of Philoctetes, whose invincible bow was necessary for the winning of Troy, but whose wound so stank that men shrank from him in horror and disgust...
...because he's more authentic. His two points, that white intellectuals have created for themselves a dreamy and gratifying image of the nonviolent Negro, and have foolishly rejected the beat protest, are made arrogantly. His snottiness would indeed be unbearable if one couldn't detect an undercurrect of self-disgust in Kofsky himself...
...were allowed to quote from the book's "obscene" passages, one could easily prove that such mechanical, brutally graphic scenes could never arouse anything except disgust in the average reader. That, most often, is the effect that Miller intends--disgust and hatred of the whole apparatus of modern civilization. This may make him silly--in the sense that Rousseau was silly--but not obscene...