But this is a man who understands the power of words. I try to chalk it up to nervous chatter, the way one can get flustered in an interview. I know what some of you are probably thinking, because I thought the same thing after all, I’m a mid-western woman prone to excessive niceness and self-doubt. Which speaks volumes from an author who, when given the chance, decided that only boys can represent society. Not how men can live together in society, but people. This implies that a girl or a woman’s sole purpose is for sex or marriage.īut what really sticks with me the most is how he states that this book is about the problem of how people are to live together in society. I mean, Kill Bill-red siren-level pissed. I mean, sex is too trivial a thing to get in with a story like this, which was about the problem of evil, and the problem of how people are to live together in society, not just as lovers or man and wife.” “The other thing is, why aren’t they little boys and little girls? Well, if they’d been little boys and little girls, we being who we are (there’s a not so subtle wink wink in his voice), sex would’ve raised its lovely head, and I didn’t want this book to be about sex (keep in mind, the characters in his book range from 6 to 12 years old). To which I scream, “Have you ever been to Junior High?”Īnd just when I think it can’t get any worse, he says…
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