Msg: 2113 *Conference*
03-24-92 08:46:22
From: DREW BLANCHAR
To : STEPHEN MELCHER
Subj: DOPE AND AUTHORS
Stephen, Admittedly, trying to read a story filled with the allusions and illusions and zugma of an intoxicated author, while you yourself are sober and serious, might be akin to riding a bicycle built by Tulose le Trek on a course laid out by Helen Keller...."Just what were they thinking and how can I follow through or even should I. (Also like reading many messages here when they're generated late at night or before the morning coffe kicks in.) Not to say we should ignore any author that isn't "politically correct". Let an editor check the spelling and see if the work "reads". If it doesn't "read" then maybe the work should be in a different medium. Think of Vonnegut's "Slaughter House Five" or "Clockwork Orange". Think of "Finnigan's Wake" where we got the word "quark". Think of talking with children or old folks or anybody during a funeral and you get images and thoughts but not whole pages. Think of poetry or children's books with a picture with each paragraph or MTV or greeting cards or Hollywood..... words used to create "instant" emotions without the long work on either author or reader to create an entire tapestry..... but, do the little images somehow connect when you've got them all inside your head and you see it as a whole/holistic tapestry called life, created in the author's world, for you to just visit????? And to think that I fell asleep through the entire quarter I took Eng 110: English Literature. But do you need lit background to talk on and bend people to your line of thought? -Me? Manipulative?