[ SECRET POST #2351 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2350 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 05 pages, 113 secrets from Secret Submission Post #336.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

Re: Inspired By Secret #6

[(Anonymous)]

Oh god yes. Dear Enemy, by Jean Webster. I remember it fondly from my childhood -- my mother recommended it to me when I was obsessed with orphans for some reason. I don't know if anyone else has read it -- it's the sequel to Daddy Long-Legs...? Well, anyway, it was written in 1915 and is set in an "orphan asylum," from the point of view of a socialite who's been landed with the position of superintendant. Very humorous illustrations, fun tone, and so on.

Fast-forward fifteen years. Reread book.

Well. All that scientific-sounding stuff the kindly doctor was teaching the socialite about hereditary feeblemindedness and alcoholism and so on? Yeah, that was eugenics. They were in fact coming out and calling it eugenics, because eugenics was trendy in the U.S. in 1915. It went over my head as a kid. Reading it after several semesters of 20th-century European history... yeah.

Re: Inspired By Secret #6

[(Anonymous)]

Jean Webster's books can be pretty bad. In "Dear Patty" or its sequel (can't recall which), a teacher comments that girls who get bullied bring it on themselves.

Why were the girls being bullied? Because Patty and her friends had been put in separate bedrooms, so they made their roommates' lives living hell until they got partnered with their friends again.

Also, Patty spent the majority of the book lying to people and wriggling her way out of trouble. Oh, but it was okay - in the end she decided to be a truthful, honest person. Yeah, good luck changing those habits, Patty.