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Old August 15th 08, 10:04 PM posted to rec.collecting.books,alt.books
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On Aug 13, 3:40*pm, Spence Morris wrote:
"Believe me," the snake said, continuing to instruct her candidate, the
ass, "no matter what any other animal may say, politics in this forest is
entirely species-oriented. *A skunk will always vote for a skunk, a rabbit
for a rabbit, an eagle for an eagle, and so forth. *That's just the way
things are among us animals."

THE POLITY OF BEASTS

The novel so politically incorrect, the New York Times refused to review
it.


Here's a quote from the author:
"For almost fifty years, certainly for the last thirty or forty,"
Iacovelli says, commenting on the provenance for his novel, "the
American political system has been broken, but it's broken because
American society has been broken. Our sense of ourselves as a nation
has been whittled away year after year, and we see that reflected in
the bitter and in some cases purely libelous partisan politics of the
day, as well as in growing sectarian strife. Intimidated by political
correctness into accepting policies defying common sense, we've been
in a freefall toward social disaster. My novel is a wake-up call
alerting Americans to this. It is likely however that the general
somnambulism has grown so abysmal, so impenetrable, so irretrievable,
that nothing any one person can do can make much of a difference.
Having complacently adjusted the noose around our necks and pushed
forward the lever for the trapdoor beneath our feet--can we expect
anything other than the inexorable thing? But someone had to write a
book like this. If it had been written a lot sooner, maybe things
wouldn't have come to so bad a head. At any rate, I'm glad it's coming
out in time for the Presidential elections. It should be read every
election year."

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