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Can you possibly post this in the Themes and Politics thread? I think you have said what I was trying to express to the original poster (but doing a terrible job of it!)I've been very, very good today, but it was a close shave a little while ago--arguing WITH A WRITER about how what a writer thinks/believes personally is not always germaine to character development. Sometimes what a character says or does is abhorrent to a writer, but is true to the character and the story. So frustrating. I held my tongue, but I really wanted to call her a stupid (Miss HollyGolightly 's favorite curseword ;D). Equating a writer's personal beliefs to what a character says or does is like saying Nabakov must have been a pedophile because he created Humbert Humbert, or Mr. King is okay with child murder (or is a secret killer sewer clown) because he wrote IT, FFS!
Now I'm getting mad all over again--lol
...I'll see if I can remedy that....
Why do women have legs?
So they can get from the bedroom to the kitchen!