tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31671374.post6277205590561536995..comments2023-10-30T07:10:34.610-07:00Comments on Underbelly: Short Fiction!Bucehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16452321114185736762noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31671374.post-30930624276782711872011-03-04T11:21:33.288-08:002011-03-04T11:21:33.288-08:00Couldn't agree more, Crank, but what is one to...Couldn't agree more, Crank, but what is one to do with:<br /><br />"Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes. But I warn you, if you don't tell me that this means war, if you still try to defend the infamies and horrors perpetrated by that Antichrist--I really believe he is Antichrist--I will have nothing more to do with you ..."<br /><br />I.e., the opening of Tolstoy's <i>War and Peace</i>Bucehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16452321114185736762noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31671374.post-28727711996463691052011-03-04T11:17:20.461-08:002011-03-04T11:17:20.461-08:00The fault, dear commentator, lies in the universit...The fault, dear commentator, lies in the universities. The academic "fine writing" storytelling form is neither fine nor tells stories that compel the reader, to any great degree, to read on.<br /><br />"Oh, Mr. Sholem Aleichem, a terrible thing has happened..." grabs you by the lapels and throttles you until you sit down and read about what happened.<br /><br />"After thirty years John had begun to believe, with more that a suspicion of annoyance, that the thin hairs over Clarissa's upper lip was more than a smudge from a felt pen that she used in her dreary lecture classes to.....zzzzzzzzzz"<br /><br />I rest my case on somebody else's MA in "creative writing."<br /><br />Yours most crankily,<br />The New York CrankThe New York Crankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04489472134701718697noreply@blogger.com