From the comments on a Guardian article by Kathryn Hughes about Wuthering Heights:
Strange how Heart of Darkness and Conrad doesn't get the same verbal contempt and disdain from humanists as Wuthering Heights and Emily Bronte.That the heart of darkness is over here, in London or Brussels, not in the Belgian Congo, is clearly one of the points of the story. Clearly, that is, if you read it.
It might be because that Conrad darkness was over there - in Africa.
But then, to judge from the article, Kathryn Hughes has not read Wuthering Heights: as in actually turned the pages, conned the words and so forth.
Would suggesting that Guardianistas try reading a book or two, just so's they know what it's like to and all, be..?
Guardianistas: That's nazi TRUMPY talk, now you're barred from Twitter la la la la la not listening la la la la la.
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Try reading the book? Dunno how anyone can you have the stamina to read that long boring Guardian article!
Hmmm, but it does say: "on the evidence of Wuthering Heights, seems to have considered hanging a small dog an act of sexy foreplay" Maybe I'll give Bronte a go!
I think that's in the XXXX "Wuthering Holes" movie versionization, plus the bit with Heathcliffe and the latex proctologist's prong, much better than any stuffy old writing stuff.
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