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...Lancelot share some opinions, there will inevitably be those who assume that they agree on everything. And since Lancelot utters enough reactionary claptrap to offend everyone, Percy is likely to get a lot of angry mail, particularly from women. Says Lancelot: "What the poor dears discovered is the monstrous truth lying at the very center of life: that their happiness and the meaning of life itself is to be assaulted...
...with displays of brightly colored dresses and lightweight suits foretelling the not-quite-imminent spring. Airlines and travel agencies sing siren songs of palm trees bending in soft Caribbean breezes. And all these delights can be savored without dipping into the cash that must be hoarded to pay those monstrous winter fuel bills. Just flash a few rectangles of hard plastic embossed with cabalistic numbers, and enter the magic world of Buy Now, Pay Later...
...Schickel can complain about the dialogue. The most monstrous dialogue is the American vernacular of Washington, Jefferson, and those we call the founding fathers, living off the labor of slaves while debating the God-given liberty of mankind...
...dramatization of Roots with the British The Fight Against Slavery is a disservice to both. The BBC production is a slave master saying he is sorry; Roots is a slave saying it hurts. If Kunta Kinte is larger than life, so also are all those who have survived the monstrous circumstances of our existence. How diminishing it is to those who have profited and grown off our pain...
Currently, Massacchusetts has no one on death row. But if the time comes when an execution is planned in the state, Bedau and the other abolitionists favor a grass roots approach of a "monstrous rally with 1000, 10,000 or even 100,000 people" to protest the move...