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Post Meeting Reflections, by MGS
Only the stout of heart–those with genuine perseverance and an openness to examining even the most revolting social constructs–stuck with this one. Some thought it moved too slow, others just weren't willing to spend hours on end with an unlikeable character. "The boy"–such a Hemingway character name, by the way–was screwed from childhood. He had a crappy mom and a laptop. Russell Banks brought to light our society's universal disdain for sex offenders. In our meeting, we realized how the terms "child molester" and "sex offender" are often conflated. The boy didn't touch anyone. He may have, given the chance, but he didn't.
Moral ambiguity was the norm in this book, and the professor character–the best in the book, methinks–brought that home. Was he a super-genius spy or a sex offender himself? In the end, the boy comes to see that it is not worth passing such a judgement one way or the other. Life is not black and white, it would seem, in Lost Memory of Skin. It's scaly, ugly, and as old as the trees.
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