tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7640521.post8147022448048376528..comments2024-01-06T05:34:00.027-06:00Comments on Blog Meridian: Denial on the Mississippi?: Part II--the river as engine of nostalgia in Show BoatJohn B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06358811061653958120noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7640521.post-70058155012709288882008-08-06T06:50:00.000-05:002008-08-06T06:50:00.000-05:00An influential Mississippi congressman has raised ...An influential Mississippi congressman has raised the possibility that the Pentagon has undercounted combat casualties in Iraq after he learned that five members of the Mississippi National Guard who were injured Sept. 12 by a booby trap in Iraq were denied Purple Heart medals. <BR/>---------------------<BR/>oliviaharis<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.treatmentcenters.org/mississippi" REL="nofollow"Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02989718444257896099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7640521.post-16280513286201223942007-07-17T09:54:00.000-05:002007-07-17T09:54:00.000-05:00dd,Thanks for stopping by.I seem to recall that yo...dd,<BR/>Thanks for stopping by.<BR/><BR/>I seem to recall that you mentioned <I>Babydoll</I> in a comment you left on one of my Welty posts. I'll have to look for it. As I read your comment here, it reminded me of the film <I>Junebug</I>: it too has a narrational blankness to it that makes you have to <I>watch</I> as well as listen. If you're curious, I wrote a post on it <A HREF="http://John B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06358811061653958120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7640521.post-60527441680258282292007-07-17T09:18:00.000-05:002007-07-17T09:18:00.000-05:00Hmmm. I haven't read this book but I do identify w...Hmmm. I haven't read this book but I do identify with the blankness you describe. I think if you watched the film "Babydoll" (a Tennessee Williams story) it would provide an interesting counter to Showboat. Showboat probably features a class of characters we all know of - scoundrels, good ole boys, belle's et al - people who came down the river or the coast to land in the south. The railroad Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7640521.post-31371835307746248882007-07-15T12:33:00.000-05:002007-07-15T12:33:00.000-05:00Randall, Thanks for dropping by and for the plug a...Randall, <BR/>Thanks for dropping by and for the plug at your place.<BR/>Re "blankness": I agree with your take on Southern culture. What I was referring to there was that the novel doesn't even seem to present that (the take-it-as-it-comes approach to living) as something its characters come to understand . . . unless, via its narrator's frequent evocations of the Mississippi's John B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06358811061653958120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7640521.post-19116932644581421422007-07-15T12:15:00.000-05:002007-07-15T12:15:00.000-05:00I'm not going to try to make a coherent comment, a...I'm not going to try to make a coherent comment, as I'm still trying to digest this.<BR/><BR/>One thing stands out, though. You talk about the "blankness" of the Southern narrative and I'm probably misreading it. But, <I>Showboat</I> perhaps is like all Southern people. We take the good times and bad and just shrug our shoulders and move on.<BR/><BR/>Yeah, we know about black people and we know Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com