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Daniella Woodhouse
Brett is June’s literary agent. He picked her up after she managed to get a deal for Over the Sycamore and even managed to resell the rights to a major publishing house when June’s first publisher folded. Brett sticks with June through her period of languishing anonymity and benefits from her meteoric rise to fame with The Last Front. He helps her to navigate the roiled waters of the publishing industry with patience and common sense, even when June doesn’t listen. Although like other characters representing the publishing industry in this book, Brett comes off as overly credulous (he’s willing to take June’s assurances that she didn’t steal Athena’s work at face value) and mercenary (he doesn’t mind bad publicity if it helps June sell books), he is generally supportive of June and defends her to Daniella, Todd Byrne, and others.
Brett Quotes in Yellowface
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Chapter 3
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Fine. Here’s how I really felt, when things came down to it.
At Yale, I once dated a graduate student from the philosophy department who did population ethics. […] Some of his arguments were a little extreme—he didn’t think, for instance, that there is any moral obligation to follow wills of the deceased if there is an overriding interest in redistributing wealth elsewhere, or that there are strong moral objections to using cemetery grounds for, say, housing for the poor. The general theme of his research was under what circumstances someone counts as a moral agent that deserves consideration. I didn’t understand much of his work, but his central argument was quite compelling: we owe nothing to the dead.
Especially when the dead are thieves and liars, too.
And fuck it, I’ll just say it: taking Athena’s manuscript felt like reparations, payback for the things that Athena took from me.
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Brett Quotes in Yellowface
The Yellowface quotes below are all either spoken by Brett or refer to Brett . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 3
Quotes
Fine. Here’s how I really felt, when things came down to it.
At Yale, I once dated a graduate student from the philosophy department who did population ethics. […] Some of his arguments were a little extreme—he didn’t think, for instance, that there is any moral obligation to follow wills of the deceased if there is an overriding interest in redistributing wealth elsewhere, or that there are strong moral objections to using cemetery grounds for, say, housing for the poor. The general theme of his research was under what circumstances someone counts as a moral agent that deserves consideration. I didn’t understand much of his work, but his central argument was quite compelling: we owe nothing to the dead.
Especially when the dead are thieves and liars, too.
And fuck it, I’ll just say it: taking Athena’s manuscript felt like reparations, payback for the things that Athena took from me.
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