OK, good writers can right straightforwardly. We can't all write in that mixture of postmodernism and poetic style which so perfectly suits the content. I've never seen anyone do that but I'm going to keep reading it aloud because it is beautiful.
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This is what I love about postmodernism - the allusive meandering language which captures the feel of a thing. I have often said it should exist as an art form. The problem is it talks complete bollocks. That didn't. That used it for precision & sharp analysis.
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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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Replying to @HPluckrose @HenstockStephen
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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Replying to @_HelenDale @HenstockStephen
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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Replying to @HPluckrose @HenstockStephen
‘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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Replying to @_HelenDale @HenstockStephen
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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Replying to @HPluckrose @HenstockStephen
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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Replying to @_HelenDale @HenstockStephen
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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Replying to @HPluckrose @HenstockStephen
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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