I loved it on many levels but I recognise that other people didn't. I'd like him to write two versions in future and we could publish the simple one linked to the full version.
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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We've already published two of his in clear, comprehensible prose. I'm going to leave it here because this is such a silly thing to try to argue about.
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