![]() ![]() ![]() For instance, the villains in The Loop are not portrayed as being trapped by the human condition, but instead they are just mean. Therapeutic Correctness is distinguished by banality, since it offers the most simple solutions to the perplexing problems of being human. The really alarming thing about it is that while its sensibility is as sweet as Mr. Rogers (of kid TV), and, if it had a theory behind it, it would be called Therapeutic Correctness. It reads as though it were written by Mr. Never has a book, as far as I know, so perfectly captured the worst of the current age's sensibilities, and if there is any significance to The Loop, it is this dubious distinction. When a man who was interested in modern painting asked her why she was so generous to the Boston Symphony but hadn't helped modern painters, she said to him, "My dear man, I may be deaf, but I'm not blind." There is a lot in The Loop to look the other way about, but the one item that you can't be blind to is the book's sensibility. Trying to make sense of The Loop - the new novel by the author of The Horse Whisperer - reminds me of the story about the Boston matron who, even though deaf, was a longtime supporter of the Boston Symphony. ![]()
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