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Fantasy (I think): The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula LeGuin African-American: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

I think she is making a general point about lack of compassion for others. In Chapter 12, there is an incident on the boat going south where the slave trader sells the baby of one of the females. Stowe says: The trader had arrived at that stage of Christian and political perfection which has...

Melt, and resolve itself into a dew.

What are the symbols in your own life and why are they important in building an understanding of the people and government? Compare.

More about blogs. I can't find out how to leave a comment on a blog entry. Clicking on Comment apparently opens existing comments, but how do leave a new one? It must be there some place, but I just don't see it.

The new format will take some getting used to, but it is attractive and it is a real pleasure to have the blogs back. They have been one of my favorite features. I always read the new entries. It's like being in a room full of people and the conversation passes from one to the other -- and...

It's great to see Peder and his blog. Will the rest of us be coming back soon?

Too spread out. Too much glaring white space. No way that I can find to jump to the next unread comment in a thread you have been following. The Blogs are still a mess.

I meant what you meant, that the aborigines were discriminated against. My more general point is that when we see people as less than human or other than human - as property in the case of the slaves - then bad treatment follows.

Any time we define a group of people as not human, whether Jews or blacks or aborigines or an alien tribe, terrible consequences ensue. In one of her books, Stowe makes this point through the words of one of her southern characters who explains patiently that, since the slaves are property, they...

Fine with me. We have enough suggestions to proceed.

Libra and I seem to be the principal commentators on this book. I miss the discussions we had on some of the others. I finished Tender Is the Night and am left unsatisfied and a bit puzzled. I can't find the center, that is, who or what the novel is about. We start out with Rosemary and...

Amen, Peder and Sparkchaster. My book lists now look like book stew. Also I really miss the ability to see quickly which blogs have new entries.

Both sound good. I haven't read any Chesterton so this would get me started. The Sayers book not only has a mystery, it has a wonderful portrait of an advertising agency and its stunts.

I noticed it on the day I started this thread, October 12 ,or possibly the day before. I normally check the blogs every day so that I can read new entries.

In Book 2 of Tender is the Night Fitzgerald goes back and picks up the pieces missing in Book 1. Book 1 gives us slice of the life of Rosemary and the Divers on the Riviera and in Paris. Hints are dropped. Book 2 begins at the beginning with Dick Diver and his first meeting with Nicole, then...

Have I done something I was not conscious of doing? Formerly, when I visited the Blogs, they were listed with those with new entries at the top of the list. I could quickly check whether there was anything new I wanted to read. Now what I see is a list of blogs, apparently in order by number...

With many of our books of the month, I had read them long ago. With Tender Is the Night, I can form opinions uncorrupted by memories of earlier views. The only other Fitzgerald I have read is The Great Gatsby and a few of the short stories. Ok. The novel is structured in three "books." I have...

This reminds me of my daughter who had a summer job packing groceries at the checkout line in the local A&P. This was the summer between high school graduation and starting college. At the end of the summer I asked her what she had learned while working at the A&P. The answer: "I learned that...

I would like to put A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes) back on the list.