On 1/29/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Chris</b> <<a href="mailto:rasputin_@hotmail.com">rasputin_@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
 with the Ascians speaking a sort of Newspeak.</blockquote><div><br>
</div></div>...sigh, here we go again...<br>
<br>
Folks, the Ascians are _not_ speaking "a sort of Newspeak."<br>
They're speaking a parody of Chairman Mao Thought, the<br>
logical end-result of people running around quoting from the<br>
Little Red Book. The Ascians are a resuscitation of the<br>
"Yellow Peril" of the pulp stories Wolfe is generally revivifying<br>
in the New Sun books. <br>
<br>
Yes, I _know_ it's pronounced "uh-SHAY-yun" and I know <br>
what it's supposed to mean, but if you really believe that <br>
Wolfe didn't consciously intend us to think, at least glancingly,<br>
of "Asians," you're not giving him enough credit for deviosity <br>
or deviousness or whatever the nominal form of "devious" is<br>
supposed to be. Making it uh-SHAY-yuns is a way to dance<br>
around being called racist, in a book all full of hypostasized<br>
racial theories.<br>
<br>
--Dan'l<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.<br>                        --
St Teresa of Avila<br><a href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/sturgeonslawyer">http://www.livejournal.com/users/sturgeonslawyer</a>