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Avenging the Gang of Four...
Some speculation inevitably focused on the radical Gang of Four. Gang Leader Jiang Qing, Mao Tse-tung's onetime companion, and her accomplices from Shanghai (municipal Party Official Zhang Chunqiao, Literary Critic Yao Wenyuan and cotton-mill Party Functionary Wang Hongwen) assumed power in the mid-1960s and instituted a reign of terror in which thousands of writers, artists and scientists were so relentlessly persecuted that many died or committed suicide. Though the gang members were arrested and dis graced four years ago, the announcement that they would go on trial for then-crimes came only last month...
...these Presidents don't do a damn thing. Maybe there's nothing can be done. I always believed in the American dream. But it's not happening. I don't think the President controls the country. On that Iran raid, I could have got a gang here in South Philadelphia and done better than that...
...other words, where Flying pretends to moralize smut, Fanny purports to dignify outrage. That any woman should allow herself to be raped by her stepfather, humiliated by the homosexual lover of the man she herself loves, and abused by a gang of perverted female whores is hardly forgivable, let alone heroic or commendable. Add to this the confusion Jong creates by eventually granting Fanny her converted, no-longer-gay man and by indicting such distinguished writers as Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift as Fanny's not-so-distinguished lovers. The result is a novel that, in self-consciously trying...
...seem to have time for these details. The message, the message. The book's jacket characterizes the insides as "highly entertaining" and "wildly funny"; could that refer to the page-and-a-half roster of eighteenth-century synonyms for "vagina"? Or maybe you consider reading about 12 men who gang-rape an innocent victim wildly funny...