Doubt

[skreyola]

I met a man back in the spring. He claimed to be a once pulitzer prize nominee and former correspondent for the New York Times. I was introduced to him by a friend, so I thought he was genuine

Comments

Counterfeits

[anonymous]

A theif distrusts anyone and everyone because he cannot trust himself. You were duped. It happens to the best of us. Nobody is perfect, but I belive you are mostly a good person. Your writing is promising and erudite. Don't let anyone get you down and don't get so far up that the fall destroys you.

Re: Counterfeits

[skreyola]

True, but the thief fears an honest man most of all because an honest man can't be kept, through the use of blackmail or threats, from exposing the thief.

Thank you for your comments. :)

Writing

[aaron_wise10]

As you might know I don't read fiction except for a few classics like Doestoevsky and Kafka so I don't know much about what makes a book good or bad. I do know that Tolstoy wrote a book called "What is Art?" in which he said "In order correctly to define art, it is necessary, first of all, to cease to consider it as a means to pleasure and to consider it as one of the conditions of human life. Viewing it in this way we cannot fail to observe that art is one of the means of intercourse between man and man". Now most art teachers would say that Tolstoy did not know much about art and I would agree. But I think that this quote is useful to look at in regards to writing. Perhaps I'm just read to much existentialism, but I think that writing is about philosophy and if any writing does not in some way add to what the audience knows about truth then their are already too many other forms of communication that will give someone pleasure

Re: Writing

[skreyola]

There are some who would say that if all you've read are those classics, you know what makes a book good.
I don't know that I agree with that, or whether I can agree with that. I recently read Dostoevsky's The Idiot, and I kept coming across things I would never imagine anyone doing in public. *shrug* Perhaps I just don't know enough about the culture, but often the events in classics are things I have difficulty imagining happen in my culture. Perhaps that is because our culture is obsessed with peer opinion... What will people think of me if I do this?
Well, I've rambled long enough.
Thank you for your comments.