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...this point, at least one reader is bound to be screaming that I have justified discrimination based on racial or ethnic characteristics. If a house's members can exclude someone because they dislike his manner, why can't they also exclude him because they dislike his religion or skin color? The answer to this is the logical converse to the point I made in the previous paragraph. While it is moral for an organization to exclude based on characteristics that affect its mission, it is immoral to exclude based on characteristics that are irrelevant. Hence Harvard's non-discrimination code...
...chapter which introduces Wallace, a postal worker who is witness to a series of letters written by a female lover to a man who has committed suicide. These letters have appeared at the post office over a number of years, and Wallace's intrigue is shared by to the reader as one wonders how the lover's plot will be revealed. McCorkle explained that these letters are continued through the novel, but not in any chronological order, and they let the reader see into the past relationship of the characters...
Despite the ominous and sometimes horrific mood of Gorey's work, the reader who first comes upon a Gorey tome is likely to be startled, confused and hysterically overcome with laughter. The tales are genuinely hilarious, featuring an eclectic mix of Victorian mannerisms, macabre comedy and blunt inexplicability. The pictures, done in crosshatched ink, are typically accompanied by a simple, hand-written, declarative sentence or sometimes just a word...
...world, Gorey's words are difficult to appreciate fully out of context. "The World of Edward Gorey" should be a source only for fans of the Gorey repertoire. Ross and Wilkin demystify some of Gorey's world, but, in typical Gorey fashion, they leave enough mystery to keep the reader interested and intrigued...
References to protesting civilians as "rock-throwing delinquents" and to the Palestinian civilian police as "vigilante commandos" portray the author's desperate attempt to convince the reader that his personal judgement is the truth. The claim that Palestinian police officers fired "automatic weapons upon the Israelis who armed them" overlooks the fact that these arms were purchased under the Oslo agreement, and with Palestinian money. The images purveyed by such propaganda upholds the political axiom around which Israeli hawks, and their more poorly informed counterparts in the U.S., mobilize: We have tried peace but we can not/will not trust those...