Date: 2011-01-15 07:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/
I am always happy to agree to differ. I don't see made-up polysyllables as wanky -- some are, yes, but they don't have to be. As to the fiction I read/films I see... I gave up on Hollywood and mainstream literary fiction some time ago, so I'm not a good case study. And, as it happens, the book I've just finished has influence from mediaeval Chinese literature in it. Along with a lot of other stuff. I'm a messy writer who draws in stuff from all over. The previous book came from a different set of influences.

Date: 2011-01-15 07:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] marrog.livejournal.com
I gave up on Hollywood and mainstream literary fiction some time ago, so I'm not a good case study.

How fashionably cynical of you. I never 'give up' entirely on anything.

Date: 2011-01-15 08:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] marrog.livejournal.com
I think 'giving up' on a large chunk of modern media is fashionably cynical. It's an expression I'm sure you've heard me use before.

Date: 2011-01-15 08:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] marrog.livejournal.com
Secondly, if you're referring to my previous comment, I'm being dismissive of a public article that you linked to that I considered to be badly written, diffuse in point, and ignorant of numerous important variables. The writer of said article then dismissed said variables saying they'd 'given up on modern literary fiction'. Which I think is extra doubleplus ignorant. Should I be nicer about that than I would be about an article by, say, Julie Bindel, just because the writer happens to be on your flist?

Date: 2011-01-15 08:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] marrog.livejournal.com
Oh, I'm speaking in good faith. I think it's fashionable cynicism. I'm happy to back this up. I'd be happy to go on. But the other party has chosen not to. And that's okay too.

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