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In Reply to: Timbo the bookworm ! posted by Timbo in Oz on June 13, 2004 at 22:51:31:

G'day Tim,
I read the first few pages of the Christopher Wilkins novel a couple of weeks ago in A+R here in Sydney and thought it was a goer but i wasn't in the spending mood.(I had no money:>))so it'll have to wait. Worth it you think?
What's the bloody point of a PC biography of Spike Milligan?
Regards
Paul

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PC in re Milligan = @#$%^&*^$%#$#@!!!! -) abend - Timbo in Oz 06:43:42 06/14/04 (0)
racism | inherent | in Milligna's work.
I felt as I read it that it was more of an opportunity for the biographer to demonstrate hw PC he was.
IMO he was working through his recognition of his own distance from his upbringing, brought about by the war. The Goumiers and the several Indian divisions, for example, and the Maoris.
and, I always found the jokes with this content as funny and as light herated an acknowledgement of the pain of all (mis)classifications.
I just don't think of Milligan as a RACIST but a man who knew, as a comic GENIUS that race was reliably funny and shocking (because silly), esp. on recogmition of one's self.
NOT a nice man, really, but a loving one, nonetheless.
Warmest,

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