Dick and Jane = intro to 50's era pulp fiction?

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  1. Joeslogic

    Joeslogic Active Member

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    From : http://www.carlagirl.net/read/dickjane.html

    Sligh's first completed print was entitled "Played with Jane." The text reads:


    SPOT PLAYED. DICK PLAYED WITH SPOT.
    "LOOK AT ME," SAID JANE. "I WANT TO
    PLAY" DICK SAID, "GOOD, YOU MAY PLAY,
    JANE. YOU MAY PLAY WITH ME." "LOOK
    HERE. LOOK AT ME," SAID JANE. DICK
    LOOKED AT JANE. DICK PLAYED WITH
    JANE. JANE PLAYED WITH DICK.


    It is difficult--if not impossible--these days to read a Dick and Jane primer with an innocent eye. In fact, Sligh's text is more innocuous than is some of what actually appeared in the books. Witness the following excerpts from the 1956 edition of The New We Come and Go, from the first story, "Come":

    Come, Sally
    Come, come.
    Oh, Sally
    Come, come.
    Come, come, come.


    and from the story "See Jane Go":


    Oh, Sally
    See Jane go down.
    Down, down, down.
    See Jane go down.


    and from "See It Work":


    Father said, "Look, Sally
    See something big.
    You can see it work.
    Up, up it comes.
    See it work."
    Sally said, "See it work.
    Work, work, work."14

    The fact that any of these passages could be believable dialogue from some assembly-line porno movie begs the chicken-and-the-egg question. Is our contemporary sexual slang a parody of our Dick-and-Jane education, or was such role-playing built into the learning method? The dialogue, when taken literally, is so banal that it is almost impossible to conceive of it as a valuable reading lesson for anyone. Sligh's work takes full advantage of the ambiguity of the stilted language to confront the unexamined acceptance of the past as an entirely positive, innocent experience.

    Also in 1988, Sligh made a group of Van Dyke prints entitled Refraining the Past . Once again, she juxtaposed family snapshots with hand written, Dick-and-Jane-style text. In one image, the text reads:

    SPOT PLAYED. JANE PLAYED WITH SPOT
    DICK SAID, "COME JANE. COME AND PLAY
    WITH ME. SEE ME JANE." JANE SAID,
    "STOP, DICK. GO, DICK." JANE SAW DICK
    GO. "STOP DICK," SAID JANE. "STOP, STOP,
    STOP."
     
  2. diogenes

    diogenes New Member

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    Sort of like all the references to sexuality in Disney films?
     
  3. Joeslogic

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    Aw heck! That was just Smurf bait. I should have gone for “Deciphered text found in the Dick and Jane series of books seems to accurately predict the end of the world in 2012.” Now we spooked him. :p
     
  4. smurfslappa

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    Hahaha! Thought you'd get me this time but you were wrooong! WROooong....
     
  5. Joeslogic

    Joeslogic Active Member

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    A little personal attack evoke a response is a pretty good strategy.
     
  6. XerxesX

    XerxesX New Member

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    Baby wants sugar, Daddy has sugar for baby. Babydoll :lol:
    Isnt avertthing sexxxualized :?: Not much arousal through sighting a bared ankles. Bared uncles :?: But uncles were probably allways lurking in corners. Helpless victims of sinfull ankles. Sweet sixteen :?:
     
  7. XerxesX

    XerxesX New Member

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    Inches.
     
  8. Joeslogic

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    :? Your a sick man Xerx. Have you ever taken a psychological test?
     
  9. XerxesX

    XerxesX New Member

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    My last shrink threw me out :( Their testing is sort of subjective though. Its sort of impossible to answer that question.
    ) But they have given me these diagnoses< Manic/depressive, Chizoid ( Later paranoid chizophrenic ) Borderliner personality. Was never accused of psychopathic behaviour so a am a good boy ! :p
     
  10. XerxesX

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    Dont take medicine and antisocial behaviour and high IQ and low EQ and all that shit BUT ITS STILL NOT psychopathic. Hehe :lol:
     
  11. diogenes

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    I think it's something about fulgyforums that appeals to this particular brand of person, the insane. Otherwise why would the percentage be so high?
     
  12. XerxesX

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    Have you read Dan Brown ? He is totally clueless. Iknw madness is as important for the free creation of art and thusly technology, as drugs. That man has not read enough books on the subject before spewing out his own andhecould definitely use a few recreational chemicals.
     
  13. XerxesX

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    He has taken the cult out of the occult and thats not OC !
     
  14. diogenes

    diogenes New Member

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    you mean OK?
     
  15. Joeslogic

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    Those damn Oklahomans they don need no stinkin cult.
     
  16. diogenes

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    I think this forum is begging for the death it so richly deserves. Oklahomans are Nazi's.
     

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