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> JG:
>
> And to think, just the other day Brooks was making out like a post-colonial
> discourse analyst
> (on the cheap), claiming that Avatar peddles an ersatz brand of white
> paternalism. Something
> tells me he is one-third abominable, one-third dense, and... one-third an
> enterprising provocateur.
> (To the extent that a provocateur can be exceptionally bland in dress,
> temperament, and prose
> style. He's a golf course-anchored gated community "bobo" provocateur.)
>
Brooks can debland his prose style when he wants to. He wrote a book on suburbia that was about as insightful as you would expect, but, I thought, succeeded on purely stylistic grounds.