----- Original Message ---- From: // ravi <ravi at platosbeard.org> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Sent: Mon, June 6, 2011 3:37:40 PM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Arundhati Roy
On Jun 5, 2011, at 5:58 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote:
>
> I think it's because she encourages people to see her as the romantic voice of
>the East, here to be wise and thoughtful and colorful in her expressions and
>analogies. Come on Ravi! It's sooooo cute that this nice, petite, Indian lady
>has wise, old answers and makes silly analogies about thin milk and heavy cream.
>I mean, isn't that what people from the East are ALLLLLLLLLLLLL about? They
>bring wisdom to poor Westerners who are incapable of wisdom and they do so in
>such cutesy, folksy ways with the inept analogies that you can't help but
>chuckle at. Western journalists eat that shit up, especially when they get to
>write about her household help serving up mangoes while she raps on about her
>dream of eating mangoes in the moonlight. I mean, she says shit like that and
>you know it just has to be said for the audience who expect people from India to
>be all magical, irrational, and romantic like that.
>
:-)
Dissenting Wren says it’s all about the envy. So we should run with that, I think, and get on this racket! I will work up something about the fragrant splendour of papayas in heat and the elusive hooded mongoose of Mannargudi. You guys figure out a way to get me on PBS.
—ravi
Warning, even my mother wouldn’t call me pretty, so you will have to work without that!
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