God I love Shirley Jackson. I just read Hangsaman, one of the best campus novels I’ve read, combining her unhappy experiences in college with her unhappy experience being wife of a professor. Like We Have Always Lived in the Castle, it succeeds in being eerie in a way that makes you feel like the supernatural is around even though nothing literally supernatural occurs.
Freddie, I consider myself a big fan and don't necessarily disagree with any of your 17 theses on disability, but you seemed there to be needlessly provocative, itching for the expected dunking by your detractors. Your language doesn't normally read as intentionally inflammatory but that piece sure did. For you to now say here, "maybe I believe them, maybe I don't" borders on cockiness, even trolling. Do you stand by what you wrote, or don't you?
Nice! We Have Always Lived in The Castle is terrific and not read enough. Anyone who loved The Haunting of Hill House (which is everyone who has read it, I think) will love this book. Jackson ramps up the insanity. It’s really twisted in an amazing way
Quoting Adler-Bell: "Solidarity requires an invitation, a warm and friendly offer to collude in a risky proposition"
Yes, you will do better if the offer is warm and friendly. But more important than that, something which Adler-Bell (and the entire left) compleely ignores, is explaining what that proposition actually IS.
This thread has some good challenges to the Adler-Bell essay, especially the "definition" offered. His characterization applies to common tendencies present in many political and cultural movements, and not just ones on the left. https://twitter.com/OsitaNwanevu/status/1535661456338870272
God I love Shirley Jackson. I just read Hangsaman, one of the best campus novels I’ve read, combining her unhappy experiences in college with her unhappy experience being wife of a professor. Like We Have Always Lived in the Castle, it succeeds in being eerie in a way that makes you feel like the supernatural is around even though nothing literally supernatural occurs.
Freddie, I consider myself a big fan and don't necessarily disagree with any of your 17 theses on disability, but you seemed there to be needlessly provocative, itching for the expected dunking by your detractors. Your language doesn't normally read as intentionally inflammatory but that piece sure did. For you to now say here, "maybe I believe them, maybe I don't" borders on cockiness, even trolling. Do you stand by what you wrote, or don't you?
Nice! We Have Always Lived in The Castle is terrific and not read enough. Anyone who loved The Haunting of Hill House (which is everyone who has read it, I think) will love this book. Jackson ramps up the insanity. It’s really twisted in an amazing way
Quoting Adler-Bell: "Solidarity requires an invitation, a warm and friendly offer to collude in a risky proposition"
Yes, you will do better if the offer is warm and friendly. But more important than that, something which Adler-Bell (and the entire left) compleely ignores, is explaining what that proposition actually IS.
This thread has some good challenges to the Adler-Bell essay, especially the "definition" offered. His characterization applies to common tendencies present in many political and cultural movements, and not just ones on the left. https://twitter.com/OsitaNwanevu/status/1535661456338870272