[lbo-talk] Too Old for Rap (was Lumpen)

John Adams jadams01 at sprynet.com
Mon Jan 30 07:40:27 PST 2006


On Jan 30, 2006, at 9:32 AM, Doug Henwood wrote:


> Charles Brown wrote:
>
>> Actually, the Canterbury Tales, Knight's Tale, rhymes like a white
>> sword
>> rap.
>
> And it's full of obscenity too! I wonder how the Trad Vals types deal
> with the fact that so much canonical literature is full of sex and
> sexuality, and not always of the plain vanilla kind.

Why, they steal from it and put it into their own works--what else? cf. Scooter Libby, Lynn Cheney, G. Gordon Liddy (or was it Hunt? Geebus, who cares?), Newt Gingrich, et al.



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