Re: CRIT: I Need Your Help on this One

Alma Hromic Deckert wrote:
I don't see it any more so I didn't see THIS deathless piece of
writing before Anna reposted it, but there's a couple of things...

On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:42:39 -0800 (PST), Anna B <annab387@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Jan 28, 3:28 pm, elanders <eland...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Somebody said things about this scene that concern me. I won't say what
they are, but would appreciate your general commentary.


ANd I BET I could tell what the "things" were. I bet I could.

I would imagine that many of them involve discretion's proving oft the better part of valour -- a sentiment with which I can hardly bring myself to differ.

Every
single one of them. In fact, I forwarded this entire post to my
husband and instructed him not to read it before I got there because
I wanted to watch his face as he did, and it was worth it, watching
his eyebrows crawl back into his hair and his eyes get rounder and
rounder...

I am SERIOUSLY considering printing it out and doing it as an Eye of
Argon reading with my writing group when it meets on Sunday.

OY! By the lithe opaque lingham of Grignr, you shall not sully the Name of Jim Theis with such associations!

No, what I wanted to say was this - that passage above, right there,
handed me an epiphany.

I now realise where the Mating Monkeys came from when Ozymandias there
launched into the Great Spellspam Rewrite of 2009.

(Seriously - there was a royal storm in a teacup a year or so ago when
the usual suspects raised an outcry that a Newberry-award-winning
novel - that's the equivalent of a Hugo for kidlit - contained the
word "scrotum" in plain sight, undisguised by euphemism or
circumlocution, even though it was only referring to a dog's, um,
assets, and not a man's.

Oh, for the sake of the monkey's nuts! I had managed to forget about that particular triumph of stupidity.

Can you imagine the ruckus if a YA novel
started displaying this kind of wild monkey sex...? On second thought,
the publicity would be FANTASTIC, the books would be flying off the
shelves... but probably not bought for the kid in the family...)


Fortunately, Great Jove has ordained that sex shall forever be a matter of sublime disinterest and virtuous ignorance to the YA set. I fear for my own Tri-World Gunpowder Plot should I ever manage to finish it, since whilst it contains no actual sex whatsoever, the adolescent protagonist and her boyfriend are very nearly exceptions to that beneficent rule. As are several of their peer-group... It *ought* to be YA, dagnabbit! And perhaps it may be yet, since even the several animal characters have so far managed to keep their scrota to themselves. We wonders, though, sometimes, precious; we really does.


--
Cheers,

Gray

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