Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 19:31:41 -0400
From: Barron <gebarron-AT-InfoAve.Net>
Subject: Re: PLC: Poetry, prose, fiction as meaningful


On 8/25/00 4:45 PM zatavu-AT-excite.com wrote:

> If you were to read my own stories or novels, I suspect you would be
> extremely confused.

Are you simply on a higher plane or are we a bit slow?

> The sign of an amature writer is
> that he is more concerned with making apoint than in writing a story. That
> is the easiest way to spot one. Mature, professional writers concern
> themselves first with language, character, and story, and then, as a part of
> characterization and investigating existence, look into various
> philosophical questions.

Really? Like who? Will you claim Faulkner again? Once again I challenge you
to support this nonsense. Give examples.

>> And, because I just have to ask, what is it that makes Animal Farm
>> "garbage"?
> 
> It's an interesting story, just like 1984, but it really isn't very good.
> That's why they have you read it in High School and why I have yet to run
> across a single class in the three English departments I have been in so far
> that teaches it. It's almost a shame they have high school students read it,
> because it teaches them that this is how you are supposed to write stories.
> Of course, for the moral it gives, I think they should read it. But I also
> know that it is really not very good writing.
> 
> Troy Camplin

So what you have to read in high school is garbage too? I read a lot of
Dickens in high school. _Lord of Flies_ too. Faulkner. O'Henry. All garbage
I suppose. But if the garbage has a mora; you say one _should_ read it. You
become more irrelevant every time you touch the keyboard.
-- 
Barron




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