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Originally Posted by BeccaPrice
and my biggest problem with the quotes cited in #37 above isn't the use of "dago" v. Levantine, it's the mysogeny. Where do editorial changes stop?
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You mean the "a real man wouldn't use a stiletto" thing? That is a rather peculiar outlook on life, I agree, but Josephine Tey was a product of the culture in which she lived, as are we all. It's very difficult to analyse someone's motives in that situation. As the famous first sentence of L.P. Hartley's book says: "The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there."