[lit-ideas] A Simple Shame
- From: Paul Stone <pas@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 16:51:02 -0500
PE: How are the Amish an example of body shame?
How do you explain the fact that they go swimming with all their clothes
on? Perhaps they want to kill two birds with one stone and wash the clothes
at the same time they wash themselves?
On an even less serious note,
If anyone wants to read a REALLY good book about what it is sort of like
living in a 'simple' community, I would highly recommend Miriam Toews' "A
Complicated Kindness" which I read this past Saturday morning. It is
laugh-out-loud funny -- something which I did dozens of time as I read.
The heroine Nomi Nickel is a small Manitoba town's Donnie Darko. In many
ways, she shared the identical adolescence that I and most of my small town
compatriots did -- except for the religion, the being mennonite, the
langauge, the simple life etc. I thoroughly enjoyed this trek through the
mind of a female, mennonite adolescent, whose insights, interaction with
others and general attitude towards others starkly resembled mine. You may
have to be Canadian to completely appreciate it, but I think it stands
alone as a very good book.
p
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Paul Stone
pas@xxxxxxxx
Kingsville, ON, Canada
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