tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401830411147364284.post3345778875266509965..comments2024-03-18T19:05:39.072-07:00Comments on Morphosis: Agatha Christie's "And Then There Were N-word"Adam Robertshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15803399373213872690noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401830411147364284.post-78683626575383546472016-05-03T23:31:07.864-07:002016-05-03T23:31:07.864-07:00OK: I understand.OK: I understand.Adam Robertshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15803399373213872690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401830411147364284.post-62295736249979226112016-05-03T23:01:13.203-07:002016-05-03T23:01:13.203-07:00I'm unsure if your objection is that you would...<i>I'm unsure if your objection is that you would have preferred I not refer to that title at all, because it contains an offensive word?</i><br /><br /><br />Yeah, I would.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401830411147364284.post-48823353354003675902016-05-02T08:02:53.778-07:002016-05-02T08:02:53.778-07:00Juanita's Journal: I'm unsure if your obje...Juanita's Journal: I'm unsure if your objection is that you would have preferred I not refer to that title at all, because it contains an offensive word? Or is it that you don't mind me referring to that title, but wanted more discussion of race? But if we discount the first para as a kind of prologue, paras 1, 2 and 3 are all about race and the representation of race: then 4 paras on death, some summary of the novel before a return (with 'This is not to absolve Ten Little Niggers of its horrible title...') to race again. It seems to me most of the post is about race.<br /><br />"Did you ever consider another possibility ...?" Yes. Yes I did.Adam Robertshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15803399373213872690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401830411147364284.post-15957348698228941022016-05-02T06:53:38.665-07:002016-05-02T06:53:38.665-07:00Your title seemed to hint an extensive discussion ...Your title seemed to hint an extensive discussion about the original title of this story - <i>"Ten Little Niggers"</i>. Then you spent most of this article utilizing the original title without any real discussion of race until the <b>last</b> paragraph. Why? Why was it so important to use that title throughout this article, if you weren't going to discuss race until near the end?<br /><br />And in that paragraph you had stated:<br /><br /><i>"What is it that Christie finds funny here, I wonder: that 'we' might consider black people 'brothers'? "</i><br /><br />Do you really believe that was Christie's intent? Did you ever consider another possibility . . . that Emily Brent's words were a way of castigating Lombard's racism (which seemed absent in the 2015 miniseries) or her fellow Britons' . . . or perhaps even her own?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401830411147364284.post-36609673739132714732016-05-02T06:52:54.121-07:002016-05-02T06:52:54.121-07:00Your title seemed to hint an extensive discussion ...Your title seemed to hint an extensive discussion about the original title of this story - <i>"Ten Little Niggers"</i>. Then you spent most of this article utilizing the original title without any real discussion of race until the <b>last</b> paragraph. Why? Why was it so important to use that title throughout this article, if you weren't going to discuss race until near the end?<br /><br />And in that paragraph you had stated:<br /><br /><i>"What is it that Christie finds funny here, I wonder: that 'we' might consider black people 'brothers'? "</i><br /><br />Do you really believe that was Christie's intent? Did you ever consider another possibility . . . that Emily Brent's words were a way of castigating Lombard's racism (which seemed absent in the 2015 miniseries) or her fellow Britons' . . . or perhaps even her own?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401830411147364284.post-75800511007306433772016-01-17T12:20:34.253-08:002016-01-17T12:20:34.253-08:00Is that the one sometimes published in English und...Is that the one sometimes published in English under the title <em>Chain of Chance</em>? If so, yes.Adam Robertshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15803399373213872690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401830411147364284.post-16305577650488977542016-01-17T07:38:37.104-08:002016-01-17T07:38:37.104-08:00Heidegger should be banned as a deadly soporific …...Heidegger should be banned as a deadly soporific … but speaking of who-dunnits and all that they imply about death, did you read Lem's "The Investigation"? … it's a brilliant SF "diversion" around deathMahendra Singhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15308770582240496910noreply@blogger.com