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- Matt DiGangi
- Boston
--Publisher., Thieves Jargon, Thieves Jargon Press.
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Graduate student (Publishing and Writing), Emerson College.
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7 comments:
I read that story and that's fifteen minutes I'll never get back. I could hardly understand most of it, way over my head I guess...the jumping around, the Dan vs. Don bullshit...who cares? Almost sounds like one of those writing colony stories...patched together with assumption and pretense...nothing ever goes anywhere, the people or the mules...boring super-literate trustafarian melodrama...
Every line screams: "I AM A LITERARY STORY AND IF YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND ME YOU MUST BE AN IDIOT"
that's finally an intelligent criticism by blue-mather. i don't think i'll take time from my busy schedule to read this supraliterary piece. maybe i'll peruse the first paragraph. thanks for your help mather!
Of course, crackers, any time...I love it that the only person who seems to be on my side is a guy named crackers...also, the only reason you think this criticism is the first "intelligent" criticism is because no one actually knows who the writer is...if he was a friend or relative of yours I'd be an asshole once again...
I don't know what you mean by this story is too literary. When I think of too literary, I think of academic. I don't think this story is written in all that academic a style. The vocabulary isn't at too advanced a level, which is why I thought you'd like it. Mexico, cigarette thieves, donkeys, the sad death of a confused but noble Asian.
Plain language is fine, but when I say a story is too literary I mean the writer wrote it thinking of himself as a "writer" and has written a story built with pretty much nothing but artifice. There are too many characters from around the globe-artifice-and because there are so many we don't really know any of them or care about any of them. The little mentions of existentialism and such to spice the dialogue-artifice. Inez crying all the time-artifice. The quick and easy sex-artifice. The confusion between Dan and the Dons-not just artifice but really stupid and tacky artifice. And the ending, especially the last lines-pure artifice.
The story was written because the writer thought there was something literary about putting a story in this setting, with all the symbolism of the breeding of the mules...but, really, what's the story? I was bored...
Hey Cracker Mather: your attacks are unfounded and, moreover, stupid. Fuck yourselves. -PHM copeader
Madore, everything about you is standard issue, even your opinions and insults...why are my statements "unfounded"? Someone here said the mule story is good, I said it was bad. But, for some reason I am the one who is out of line...I gave examples of why the story rings false and contrived...of course no editor has to defend their choices, but I would think they might want to, unless of course they are unable to, because they know inside themselves that they are publishing crap...all you can say is I'm "stupid"...well, that sums it up I guess...ha ha...you stupid head...why don't you go suck on your standard issue...
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