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From: Robbie Mayes <robbie.mayes>
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 11:36:45 -0500
I wonder. I did take note that twice someone was called a "prick" and once someone was called an "asshole" in OLIVE'S OCEAN (a book I very much admire, by the way). To me, these seem more charged than the unsexual and intrisically appropriate use of "fuck" in Polly Horvath's book. This is a word children--unless they're living in a place I've never been--hear so much it has certainly lost its status as the ultimate taboo. I absolutely don't presume that any ALA committee excluded Horvath's book from their awards and endorsements based on this issue, but I wonder that rarely the book has been discussed in reviews and elsewhere without concern about the salty language in its pages. Is there a strange line that is being drawn about what kind of language kids can handle?
Petrol herewith added, if that was RG's intention.
Mayes
Received on Wed 21 Jan 2004 10:36:45 AM CST
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 11:36:45 -0500
I wonder. I did take note that twice someone was called a "prick" and once someone was called an "asshole" in OLIVE'S OCEAN (a book I very much admire, by the way). To me, these seem more charged than the unsexual and intrisically appropriate use of "fuck" in Polly Horvath's book. This is a word children--unless they're living in a place I've never been--hear so much it has certainly lost its status as the ultimate taboo. I absolutely don't presume that any ALA committee excluded Horvath's book from their awards and endorsements based on this issue, but I wonder that rarely the book has been discussed in reviews and elsewhere without concern about the salty language in its pages. Is there a strange line that is being drawn about what kind of language kids can handle?
Petrol herewith added, if that was RG's intention.
Mayes
Received on Wed 21 Jan 2004 10:36:45 AM CST
