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The Protestant Ames takes an equally hard line: "The unjust revealing a secret hath in it oftentimes the pernicious violations of trust, friendship, and honesty," and is therefore "not only in the common esteem of men, but in the Scripture also, reckoned amongst the most odious sins."
I fear that too many people will throw up their hands in exasperation at Updike's way of appealing for love by presenting his heroes as ever more odious or cantankerous, and too many other people will celebrate the book mostly for its secondary virtues--its astronomical wonders sailing through the futuristic sky, the human-chomping metal animals, a few political jokes.
Of course, there are subtle warnings against prejudice and snobbery (as embodied by the odious Malfoy clan), and affirmations of the virtues of honesty and friendship.
(This, of course, raises First Amendment questions about odious speech, but that's another question.)
Murdoch has chosen to flatter an odious regime in the hope of making a fortune from the Chinese market.
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