What I need kicking for, besides trying to do too much too quickly and
starting work on a second novel, is the way I was blinded by privilege.
Thanks for the comments BTW. As for older gay men sero-converting
(according to health stats) this may be connected with way AIDS
education acts as a depressive script, to use a term from affect
psychology.
Privilege, perhaps it could be said is a privileged term used in recent
literary and art so-called PoMo critique. It takes on absolute
appearance and acts as a moral imperative, so who said Leavisite moral
criticism was dead, or gone and buried in this modern PoMo era?
It is a very poorly understood term I am finding more and more and one
of the critical agendas in the two novels. One way is to shut off all
other perspectives as if allow only one local view of privilege, as in
third person realist, but one is still blinded by privilege just as much
as the moral idea of absolute privilege. The difficulty then becomes one
of seeing through privilege...
anyways, too much to fully outline my critque for now, best, Chris
Jones.
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