Actually, I think the very fact that you are infuriated by the idiot quite superb. I have some (be it a mere glimmer) of hope for the study of literature when even one of the student body does not sit and suck this mindless pap, to regurgitate it into the mouths of the next crop of bird-brains (the only people who will take the subject, eventually). This: "I don't understand the view of something that's - for all practical purposes - damn nigh incomprehensible as somehow good or more worthwhile than something that's accessible. Incomprehensible is intellectually lazy, elitist and insufferably damned pretentious "
was pure music to my ears. I couldn't say it nearly as well. Who says you have not benefited from the study of literature?
Having just met a young Scot at WFC who has been sucked into this pretentious crud... it does SO reassure an old monkey to read this coming from one of the new generation of writers. More power to your elbow! Can we send you a gross of pencils?
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Date: 2005-11-28 07:47 am (UTC)This:
"I don't understand the view of something that's - for all practical purposes - damn nigh incomprehensible as somehow good or more worthwhile than something that's accessible. Incomprehensible is intellectually lazy, elitist and insufferably damned pretentious "
was pure music to my ears. I couldn't say it nearly as well. Who says you have not benefited from the study of literature?
Having just met a young Scot at WFC who has been sucked into this pretentious crud... it does SO reassure an old monkey to read this coming from one of the new generation of writers.
More power to your elbow! Can we send you a gross of pencils?