Whose 'masculineness superiority' Chris? The reviewers? I'm not into writing snide reviews myself, unless some writing is really bad & I have to review it. I prefer to let it be, say nothing. But I found little in what the reviewer quoted to lead me to want to read more of the writer's work.
We do make choices, & they do say something about our own values, & what we value.
I do think it's a good idea as a reviewer to quote as much as possible so your reader gets a sense of what you are praising or dissing…
Doug
On 2012-07-28, at 12:23 AM, chris Jones wrote:
> On 27/07/12 23:58, Douglas Barbour wrote:
>> what the reviewer quotes deserves his disdain
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> So much like Apollo these quotes. Has not Rimbaud or Nietzsche been read?
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> The cynic masculine disdain, so much above us poor readers. We need a good lecture to be told.
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> But maybe, this masculineness superiority, has some interest or rather the incomplete reduction of interest which leaves us with shame? This incomplete reduction of interest, being shame, is rather like the incomplete reduction of dx in mathematics, which placed in relation to dy gives us a parabolic mirror, a lens, looking from a far off reflective distance; Apollo again.
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> He knows not that of which he speaks, from a republic safety. Only poets know (if one is to follow Plato all the way)
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> * Incomplete reduction of interest as the affect of shame can be found in both Silvan Tomkins and Sedwick and Adams.
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