All novelists who are worth anything at all resist a version of life as it has been presented to them. What Flaubert meant by bourgeois life is not what his age meant by bourgeois life, and what Austen meant by the word "woman" was subtly at odds with the usage of that word in her time.
Well, it depends on what she means by 'worth anything at all'. If she means 'good writers of literature', then I think she's right. I've come to think of the literary novelist as being primarily concerned with psychological and social mechanisms that work at right angles to received wisdom, which would mean that their novels would, incidentally, 'resist a version of life as it has been presented to them.'
But that implies that writers of entertainments, no matter how well crafted they may be, is not 'worth anything at all'. So, I also think she's wrong.
And that's if I understood her meaning.
Sure. Come back looking for some real people talking about real stuff. If it is all about green snot and Irving, you just need to adjust your definition of "real stuff".
What?
Not following, bunk.
English, motherfucker, English!(On an international board, that comma is wicked important. Also, it's a total quote.)
Bunk, thanks for the fix-up. I lurves me some Irving. Green snot is not high among my favorite topics.
Short sentences. I should stick to short sentences.
Mine either.
Who was talking about that?
there are a number of you that will like this strip
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That's way great. Way way way great.
This morning I heard a radio ad for James Patterson's latest wingfic book, Maximum Ride. I still can't believe he wrote one wingfic book much less three.
I don't know if there are any Robert Jordan fans here but I heard today that he has some horrifying and mostly uncurable blood disease.
I should probably google you guys a real source. . . but I was told one of the treatments involved getting rid of your marrow (well, holding it outside of the body) - killing the thing that causes the problem and then putting the marrow back.
And it doesn't necessarily work.
And here is a source.
Did we talk about this here?
I can't remember.
