In Sondra Marshak & Myrna Culbreath's "The Procrustean Petard," there's a line referring to (and I'm quoting entirely from memory, so I'm probably at least slightly off), they describe the gender-bending machinery to which the title refers as the result of "a callousness so extreme that it doesn't recognize itself as callousness."
That turn of phrase (probably one of the best sentences Marshak & Culbreath ever wrote) immediately came to mind just now, when I read about what happened when Univision’s Ilia Calderon sat down with Christian Barker, the imperial wizard of the Loyal White Knights of the KKK in Pelham, North Carolina, and his wife, Amanda. At one point, he denied that the Klan was a hate group, and denied that he was a racist.
"a callousness so extreme it doesn't recognize itself as callousness indeed."
To keep this topical, has anybody else here suddenly had something from some work of TrekLit brought forcefully to mind like this?
That turn of phrase (probably one of the best sentences Marshak & Culbreath ever wrote) immediately came to mind just now, when I read about what happened when Univision’s Ilia Calderon sat down with Christian Barker, the imperial wizard of the Loyal White Knights of the KKK in Pelham, North Carolina, and his wife, Amanda. At one point, he denied that the Klan was a hate group, and denied that he was a racist.
"a callousness so extreme it doesn't recognize itself as callousness indeed."
To keep this topical, has anybody else here suddenly had something from some work of TrekLit brought forcefully to mind like this?
