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RE: [pf] "Babbitt" by Sinclair Lewis
by David A
01 December 2000 12:40 UTC

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John Andersen wrote:
> If I defined the word Nazi for you would you all think I was 
> calling you Nazis?  Or if I defined the word communist, would you 
> all think I was labeling you such?

Oh John, come on. You say you're a writer--you should know then that 
words aren't that simple. You didn't just give a simple definition, you 
augmented it ("To this I would add: an excessively teamplayerish
person who seems incapable of expressing even the faintest glimmer of
individuality") in a way that clearly indicates what you think of such 
people, in no uncertain terms. What can be more insulting that to paint 
people as a nonindividual, especially those of whom you know nothing 
except that they're a "team player." 

Even Babbitt wasn't a Babbitt, or else Sinclear Lewis wouldn't have been 
able to write an entire novel about him.

David