--- Rene Ribic <
rribic@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> (& even though I often find the news depressing
-
> unlike most Thompson
> novels - I still like to keep up with it. I like
to
> know what's going on
> & it seems to me that ignoring reality is a
much
> closer analogy to
> sticking one's head up one's arse than
actually
> looking at reality
> head-on).
Yep. To me, the best hard-boiled and noir (and any other art
form, for that matter) do just that: look at reality head-on.
The idea that noir = news is absurd, as I think miker knew
when he said it (and hence the ;) ). There's an enormous
difference between relating reality and creating new reality,
which in essence is what good fiction does.
G.
===== George C. Upper III, Editor The Lightning Bell Poetry
Journal http://www.lightningbell.org/
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