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But what I want to take out of Sabbath Lily's comment about Haze is
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this sense of what you look at.
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What does Haze look at and what does he see?
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What do we look at when we read this novel, and what do we see?
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Those are questions that are going to frame the two lectures that I give on this novel.
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The second quotation, from Onnie Jay Holy, raises the
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question of sentiment.
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This novel--as you will soon see,
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once you get to the parts where
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Onnie Jay Holy begins to preach-- this novel is very much a critique of sentimentality.
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If Richard Wright's ideal response to his fiction was that,
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for the reader, the words would disappear,