Sidney Allinson
> The latter-day solemnity towards early writers of
thrillers and pulps
> is faintly comical. For the most part, they were
freelancers who did
> it in a matter-of-fact way, without a shred of
self-consciousness
> about any "social significance."
********** For me, that "solemnity" is a respect for the
quality of the good writers' work. In my way of thinking, the
commercial nature does nothing to demean it. And what the
author meant or didn't mean doesn't much matter to me either.
The work stands by itself. Or at least that's what my buddy
Barthes says.
miker
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