well, what do you expect when you have infinitity in a grain of sand and eternity in a verb tense?
Nothing so true as what you once let fall, "Most poets have no character at all. Matter too soft a lasting mark to bear and best distinguished by bore, fraud and fair."
SFF... living genre? Dryden or pope's genre certainly wasn't dead while they were writing it, so I wonder how we get off so lightly. And our genre fetish is that kowtow to modernism where we have to distinguish ourselves. SFF is often socially exclusionist, though no more than cyberpoets.
I think the problem is that people think too much. Thinking's well and good in it's place, but like fast food it is addictive and leads to bad results. Thinking, untempered by praxis leads away from just getting shit done... the central theme of nietzsche and dostoyevsky's work, provided you read them simultaneously while drinking pints, sans exegesis.
More time getting those words on the page... less thinking about the cocktail discussions at WordCon... imho...
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Nothing so true as what you once let fall,
"Most poets have no character at all.
Matter too soft a lasting mark to bear
and best distinguished by bore, fraud and fair."
SFF... living genre? Dryden or pope's genre certainly wasn't dead while they were writing it, so I wonder how we get off so lightly. And our genre fetish is that kowtow to modernism where we have to distinguish ourselves. SFF is often socially exclusionist, though no more than cyberpoets.
I think the problem is that people think too much. Thinking's well and good in it's place, but like fast food it is addictive and leads to bad results. Thinking, untempered by praxis leads away from just getting shit done... the central theme of nietzsche and dostoyevsky's work, provided you read them simultaneously while drinking pints, sans exegesis.
More time getting those words on the page... less thinking about the cocktail discussions at WordCon... imho...