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To: one_less who wrote (21995)	8/14/2001 6:23:39 PM
From: Poet	Respond to of 82486

I am taking that as a concession. I'll let go of your itsy bitsy "cup" if you meant it.

To: one_less who wrote (21995)	8/15/2001 12:45:08 PM
From: average joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

"Years ago I read a criticism of a novelette, in which the critic was furious because the author had written: 'He blew his nose and wiped it.' He said it went against everything beautiful and exalted which literature should give the nation. This is only a small illustration of what bloody fools are born under the sun. Those who boggle at strong language are cowards, because it is real life which is shocking to them, and weaklings like that are the very people who cause most harm to culture and character. They would like to see the nation grow up into a group of over-sensitive little people - masturbators of false culture of the type of St. Aloysius, of whom it is said in the book of the monk Eustachius that when he heard a man breaking wind with deafening noise he immediately burst into tears and could only be consoled by prayers. People like that proclaim their indignation in public but take unusual pleasure in going to public lavatories to read obscene inscriptions on the walls. In using a few strong expressions in my book I have done nothing more than affirm en passant how people actually talk. We cannot expect the inn-keeper Palivec to speak with the same refinement as Mrs. Laudova, Doctor Guth, Mrs. Olga Fastrova and a whole series of others who would like to turn the whole Czechoslovak Republic into a big salon with parquet flooring, where people go about in tail-coats, white ties and gloves, speak in choice phrases and cultivate the refined behavior of the drawing-room. But beneath this camouflage these drawing room lions indulge in the worst vice and excesses." EPILOGUE TO PART 1, 'BEHIND THE LINES' The Good Soldier Svejk - Jaroslav Hasek Hasek could just have easily been describing "The Many Faces of Eve" behavior lately on this thread.