Re: Rape Education Story #60

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Magic Nose Goblin) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ellen Mercer) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> > Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> > > Magic Nose Goblin wrote:
> > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kate Orman) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> > > > 
> > > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sky King) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >>>"All men are rapists and that's all they are" -- Marilyn French,
> > > >>>Author, "The Women's Room"
> > > >>
> > > >> 
> > > >>
> > > >>>"My feelings about men are the result of my experience. I have little
> > > >>>sympathy for them. Like a Jew just released from Dachau, I watch the
> > > >>>handsome young Nazi soldier fall writhing to the ground with a bullet
> > > >>>in his stomach and I look briefly and walk on. I don't even need to
> > > >>>shrug. I simply don't care. What he was, as a person, I mean, what his
> > > >>>shames and yearnings were, simply don't matter." -- Marilyn French, in
> > > >>>"The Women's Room"
> > > >>
> > > >>"The Women's Room" is a fictional novel. These comments are made by 
> > > >>fictional characters
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > i.e. they are an expression of MARILYN FRENCH's thoughts.
> > > 
> > > Yep, that's how literature works, as any college literature professor 
> > > can explain.
> > 
> > If you want to prove that Marilyn French is a crazed radfem (that's
> 
> Either SHE is a crazed radfem, or she's modelling her characters
> after other REAL LIFE crazed radfems.
> 
> Either way, the quotes from her characters do NOT just appear out of
> a vacuum.  Either they are Marilyn French's thoughts, or they are based
> on the quotes of other women.
> 
> there is NO other possibility.

So an author of a fictional work is limited only to verbatim
repetition of phrases that s/he has heard IRW? It isn't possible to
generate new statements to  attribute to his or her characters?

> If you believe otherwise, then you are a self-deluded fool.

So you like to argue and pre-emptive insults, irrespective of whether
the topic of your argument has anything to do with your overall point.
You must be a very bitter guy. Why don't you tell us what it is that
is really bothering you? What did they *do* to you, anyway?

Regarding your question, I believe that an author of fiction can have
one of his characters say something that he's never heard another
person say. I certainly did as much in my creative writing classes,
back in the day.