Comments | fpb: The world upside down

fpb

The world upside down

Sep 15, 2011 16:23

If there is one thing that every writer on earth knows, or ought to know, it is that you write to the customer's specifications. If the customer wants you to write an adventure story with a blond blue-eyed male protagonist, that is what you do, or else you don't accept the contract ( Read more... )

tyranny of relativism, tyranny

Comments 8

capnflynn September 15 2011, 20:12:16 UTC

I had wondered if this kerfuffle was what you were talking about the other day in your "diversity" post.

Did you see this: http://theswivet.blogspot.com/2011/09/guest-blogger-joanna-stampfel-volpe.html

It is very interesting how different the writers' account is from the agent's account.

capnflynn September 15 2011, 20:18:32 UTC

I wanted to add, I do believe that both the writers and the agent were speaking (writing, blogging) in good faith. The extreme variance between the accounts just makes me wonder what else is going on, or what happened between the writers' conversation with the agent and now.

fpb September 15 2011, 23:01:06 UTC

I think it unfortunate that the agent seems to concede the point at the outset ("It is imperative blah blah diversity blah"); I also think it signiricant that sartorias discards everything she says and just insists that the point has to be general - that is, tha the compulsory demand for "diversity" must steamroller any other consideration, including, no doubt, the small matter of freedom of conscience and free trade. I have just been looking at some WWII Partisan songs, and thinking again of the three mighty lines of our poet Trilussa, written in the depths of Fascist tyranny:
E forse un giorno Iddio benedira'
Ogni goccia de sangue ch'e' servita
Pe' scrive la parola LIBBERTA'!And the day will yet come when God will bless/ Every drop of blood that ever went/ Into the writing of the word FREEDOM ( ... )

Urk... fpb September 15 2011, 23:02:41 UTC

Last sentence: "Don't tell me to tell you what I think when I find..."

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affablestranger September 19 2011, 05:08:32 UTC

I read of this whole affair a week ago on a writers forum. As I've quipped before: Many people believe everyone *must* have equality of outcome, however forced it must be. Everyone *must* be "appreciated" as well.

fpb September 19 2011, 06:24:37 UTC

And for this petty self-regard we must forget about the liberties for which our ancestors died. Colour me bitter.