Quinn Angstrom
Know what's great? The full text of the "No Chinaman" rule from Knox's Ten Commandments
Quinn Angstrom
No Chinaman must figure in the story. Why this should be so I do not know, unless we can find a reason for it in our western habit of assuming that the Celestial is over-equipped in the matter of brains, and under-equipped in the matter of morals.
Quinn Angstrom
I only offer it as a fact of observation that, if you are turning over the pages of a book and come across some mention of ‘the slit-like eyes of Chin Loo’, you had best put it down at once; it is bad.
Quinn Angstrom
that precision semicolon is
raspberrydrink
basically "if the writer relies on cheap stereotypes and racism, it's not worth reading"
Quinn Angstrom
particularly since it was written in 1929
raspberrydrink
bless
Quinn Angstrom
"I don't understand why we keep doing this but man"
Quinn Angstrom
"Good indicator of a bad book"
MundersOWundus
When I was planning When The Ravens Cry, I rendered this “the murderer is not permitted to be one of those people.”
MundersOWundus
It’s a good rule in full
Quinn Angstrom
The funny thing about the Decalogue and Umineko is that like
Quinn Angstrom
while Knox's 5th is never mentioned in the story
Quinn Angstrom
Kinzo is basically an archetypal Knoxian Evil Chinaman
Quinn Angstrom
grew up in Taiwan, pure evil, brilliant and filled with greed, has a secret place filled with weird chemicals
Rama
Does the fact that he's a reverse-weeb make it better or worse
Quinn Angstrom
I don't know
Rama
All the random occult shit from another continent that no other human in the story understands makes me think better
Rabbit Crimes
He’s almost playing it straight and being an inversion if it at the same time, when you think about it
Rama
He was also a literal fascist, although he didn't really take it seriously.
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