RE: Re: pedo in a speedo

You're doubtless right about the Meese commission report influencing
(things like) EQUINOX -- though, h'mmm, when did HOGG come out?

Incidentally, is it just me, or does the style of the "Note of Moral
Intent" sound to anyone else like that of Delany, or at least Steiner?

--Dan'l

>"NOTE OF MORAL INTENT
>
>"First finished by Delany in Autumn 1968, Equinox contained a number
>of (fortunately secondary) characters below the age of consent. Need
>we say that the sixties and even the seventies were more morally lax
>decades than our current one? Certainly they were times of greater
>license--if not looser sexual ethics. Delany's novel has sustained
>considerable intellectual attention since its appearance in March
>1973 and has been the subject of praiseful analysis in various
>journals and books--one reason, clearly, for republishing it today.
>[...] We are torn, then, between faithfulness to the verbal artifact
>we would herewith reproduce [...] and the dictates of the present's
>greater sense of moral responsibility. To that end we have added an
>even hundred years to the direct mention of the age of any character
>in the original version clearly presented as a minor associated with
>licentiousness. Bethy, Benny, Marny, Pietro...We remind you how
>powerful such a strategy is: a six year old in a context such as this
>invites unspeakable possibilities; a 106 year old we just assume the
>homme moyen sensual, much less the pedophile, finds anaphrodisiacal
>if not--in such a context--ludicrous. We hope  the disruption of the
>image will prevent the age of these characters (now emended
>throughout the text) from functioning as a node of libidinal
>exploitation, as all directly stated ages in the novel are now
>eighteen or significantly above."




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