Re: Heroin, the movie
blah b b blah (jrovira@juno.com)
Sun, 11 Apr 1999 15:55:45 -0400 (EDT)
yeah, after sending those comments about Nabokov I was gonna add some
comments about understanding those feelings as a writer confronting
readers. I've been to quite a few readings over the past several weeks
and the questions annoy **Me,** I hate to think what the authors
themselves may have thought. If the statement was out of context and
made him seem worse than he was, I can accept that. I'll have to read
Nabokov more, then (will probably have to pretty soon :) ).
Eh, Lolita (the book), well. . .I recongize its artistic merit, I just
don't like it. Really, the merit was lost on me till the end, and then
that changed the whole view of the rest. If I were to reread it now
knowing the end...I don't know.
Jim
PS to Scottie --
Read an interesting News piece saying the comparisons to the Serbs and
Hitler is overblown rhetoric made to garner support for the war. I was
thinking about posting it. But, at the same time, it did admit the Serbs
were indeed guilty of criminal activity with regard to the Kosovans (who
did start the conflict by demanding independence).
To me, the area should never have been "one" country. I think
Croatia/Bosnia, Yugolsavia, and Kosovo were artificially made a single
entity first through conquest, then through a superior Soviet military
presence that demanded unity and peace. When that machine collapsed,
individual states started vying for independence.
"The written word is a power of such magnitude that only pedants would
try to reduce it to rules. Or the French."
--F.K.
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