Alan Davey Vision Quest Request

[Steve Swann]

Also, as someone else mentioned, he was a thinking person who in later
life appears (based on his voluminous body of correspondence) to have
reconsidered and recanted his earlier racist views...

Steve

On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Carl Edlund Anderson <cea at carlaz.com> wrote:
> On 08 Jan 2010, at 07:24 , Mary Sullivan wrote:
>> I agree Lovecraft wrote some fantastic
>> stories, I also understand he had his  prejudices.
>
>
> I wouldn't say that I _ignore_ the prejudices evidenced in the works of people like Lovecraft and Howard, but I try to remember that they are products of their time and culture -- which, despite the closeness to my own, _isn't_ the same!  After all, I am accustomed to reading works by much older authors, some of whom came from cultures in which slavery was normal and human sacrifice not unknown (and heaven knows whatever other everyday things for them would seem shocking to us), and I need to see their works as products of a particular time and place as well.  (It's easier with them, since there's more distance, but really it's the same issue.)
>
> Heck, I wouldn't necessarily condone all the thing some of my favorite musicians have done over the years -- but I'm listening to their music, not issuing a general approval of everything they did or said as an individual! :)
>
> Cheers,
> Carl
>
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> Carl Edlund Anderson
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