True Helen. I got about halfway through. Tough slogging for me.
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I get why people are saying it could have been written more simply & briefly & got its point across clearly but that, I think, is to completely miss the point. It would then just be like a hundred other straightforward, clear arguments.
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It’s dreadful writing. I understand what he’s on about having been force-fed this tosh, and I didn’t finish it. Pity the poor person who, on a sudden, is forced to take a mental midget like Liz Grosz seriously.
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Well, now you've informed me of this, I no longer absolutely love it. I'll let the other people who did know they shouldn't either. I really think you just have to accept that people can find different things beautiful & meaningful even if you don't see why they do.
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‘Quality’ in the arts isn’t purely subjective. Some things are better than others. There is, of course, room for disagreement, but an Aristotelean aristocracy of excellence is possible.
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OK, then. Still, it really doesn't hurt you at all if I love something you don't and telling me I shouldn't really isn't going to achieve anything.
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On one level that’s true, but if you want the magazine you edit to reach a large audience, then you need clarity of expression. Areo is very good, but its current audience depends to a large degree on your special skill as a communicator of complex ideas in limpid prose.
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Yes, that's a valid argument and the one I accept. I just hope on a personal level that this doesn't stop him doing his literary thing with postmodernism and that we can have two versions.
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The second version will require him learning how to write. Unfortunately, that may involve you teaching him. You may be there for a while.
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