'I can't imagine anything more boring than one's o...
'I can't imagine anything more boring than one's own sensations.'He must have a very strange imagination removed as it apparently is from all experience of life. Where does this imagination exist, I...
View ArticleWow, that is really shocking about Trojanow. I won...
Wow, that is really shocking about Trojanow. I wonder what he would say about Proust's world of sensations or Woolf's? Ironically, the kind of prose he seems to exalt is much more narcissitic because...
View ArticleDespite being rather absurdly lachrymose myself, I...
Despite being rather absurdly lachrymose myself, I've got much sympathy for any attack on the kind of self-indulgent emotionalism of much modern (ego-)"literature". It seems mired in the very worst...
View Articleabsurd. The reactions of characters, however "exte...
absurd. The reactions of characters, however "externalized," are the projections of the author's own sensations/reactions. In fact any work of literature is one big ego trip, the writer's self writ...
View Article"In fact any work of literature is one big ego tri...
"In fact any work of literature is one big ego trip"Well, perhaps only when they claim any different.
View Articleha. true. maybe "ego trip" is too harsh to be a bl...
ha. true. maybe "ego trip" is too harsh to be a blanket statement. But certainly we have author, author, author everywhere we go no matter how humble the wordsmyth. and that is how it should be, I...
View ArticleAs far as I'm concerned Meg, it's sensitivity not ...
As far as I'm concerned Meg, it's sensitivity not smartness that defines a good comment!
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