Timeline for How to interpret 'pure hokum' correctly?
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| Jan 16, 2015 at 7:08 | comment | added | Brian Hitchcock | Law Area 5- Proposal: I think he was claiming the last line of Gone With the Wind was a great ending line—even though it was "pure hokum", in his view , because, in context, the hokey last line fit perfectly with the whole hokey movie (and novel.) | |
| Jan 15, 2015 at 21:41 | comment | added | user3169 | Resembles? How? | |
| Jan 15, 2015 at 21:32 | comment | added | user8712 |
The code for my comment : Thanks, but I remain confused. How does it make sense for the reviewer to decry the ending of *Gone with the Wind*, if it resembles that of *The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn*, which he already praised as one of the best closing lines? Does his deprecation of the ending of *Gone with the Wind* contradict his praise of the ending of *The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn*?
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| Jan 15, 2015 at 21:31 | comment | added | user8712 | @BrianHitchcock Thanks, but I remain confused. How does it make sense for the reviewer to decry the ending of Gone with the Wind, if it resembles that of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which he already praised as one of the best closing lines? Does his deprecation of the ending of Gone with the Wind contradict his praise of the ending of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn? | |
| Jan 11, 2015 at 8:27 | comment | added | Brian Hitchcock | Oh, and yes, the reviewer did seem to be judging Gone With the Wind (the novel) to be hokum. But that's a reviewer's prerogative. Or maybe he's only talking about the last line of the novel (was it the same as in the movie? I don't know.) | |
| Jan 11, 2015 at 2:49 | history | answered | user3169 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |