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Originally Posted by issybird
[...] Similarly, I didn't find her biased. [...]
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What do you call this?
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‘I don’t remember the name,’ replied Roeder coldly. The dial-painters weren’t important enough for him to recall such insignificant details.
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This was one of a constant stream of painting characters on the corporate side with negate phrasing (coldly), and snide asides that - as far as I could tell - had no reason to be there except to prejudice the reader.
Perhaps Roeder did say it coldly and perhaps he really did think the women were insignificant, but he might just as well have genuinely not recalled, because a number of years had passed. (If it was just this one example I'd let it pass, but there are a great many more.)
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Originally Posted by Catlady
This is why you're driving me nuts!  |
This only proves that even a century on, people can still disagree on the subject - proving that there can indeed be more than one way to look at these things. I can only ask you to believe that I am not an evil, mean-spirited person. I do care, I just don't think that - back then especially - it was as simple as you would have it. ... But we've been through that.