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ismnotwasm

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10. How an a child understand something like that?
Tue Nov 5, 2013, 05:59 PM
Nov 2013

Stephan King, who often surprises me with his insights, in the book "It" (yes the one about the scary clown) has a minor character (the wife of his major "Jewish" character) flashback on the anti-semitism she experienced as a teenaged girl,( in the '50's) dipping into how it affected her reactions in life, and how she felt about herself, with maintaining self-esteem still occasionally an effort.

Although it's a small scene, and one completely overshadowed by subsequent events in the book, it's very poignant, and one I think of more often than some of the scary stuff.

King is a trip when he tosses stuff like that in his books. I think that's why so many of them are a bit overlong

And Oi. You should see the kind of lovely typos I get with my iPad.

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