So… destructive tendencies eh?
I spoke with Trey last night. He is one of the people who i gave Michael’s work so that I could get other people’s interpretations of it. I’m interested in spreading it around because I think it is a damn good story and i’m wishing someone would finish it. Also i believe he should get recognition for being talented.
Trey is enjoying the story, and agrees that the man had some serious talent. In fact, interestingly enough, he agrees that M. Buornauro had time down pat. If you are going to have a superhero who can manipulate time, you had better create a conception of time. M.B. did a pretty good job at actually creating a conception of time.
Trey told me though that if he had not known that M.B. had commited suicide, that he would have guessed it in the near future after reading his work. He believes there is enough evidence to suggest the individual was preocuppied with suicide.
I didn’t notice it, but then i watched a film M.B. made. I guess it even alludes to the future, since the character in there threatens to commit suicide. Alluding to being, “crazy….. crazzzzzyyy.” He was a loon.
So where can you segregate the artist from the work? Is it possible? Can we honestly say that the work isn’t testament to how the artist is feeling?
Mary and I get in this debate all the time, but it is personal there. She wrote a novel and argues that the novel has nothing to do with her, or at least that you have to watch what you link her up with in her novel. Oh well… i’m sure there are skads of literary analysis that debate this topic.
December 7th, 2004 at 7:18 pm
Oh, I don’t kid myself. That novel has lots to do with me. But I’ve twisted the facts of my emotional and interpersonal life and intermingled them with the facts of others’ emotional and interpersonal lives and totally fictional details so much that you can’t tell who’s what anymore. Three aspects of three people become one character. A story someone once told me is attributed to a completely unrelated character, facts slightly altered to reflect theme or further plot. &tc. In the end, all you can really attribute to me is theme. If something I write makes a statement, then that’s a statement in which I believe–or at least a belief with which I am toying. Sometimes I work things out on paper in story format to see if they make sense. (And, actually, now that I think about it, sometimes I make a statement on accident, in which case it may be something I believe subconsciously but don’t know yet. In which case you should tell me.
Oh, the joys of the process…) But, like, that short story of mine I wrote in August/September, THE PROCEDURE, is, thematically speaking, my exploration of the questions I was asking myself at that time as a result of how serious we had gotten: what is love, can it really last forever, can I really trust these unbelievably wonderful feelings… Happily, one of the compliments I got in workshop about that story was that it was oddly hopeful. 🙂 But each character of that story relates back to no one person. The main character is a medical receptionist and her husband is a trucker. Which sounds like J- and D-. But they are nothing like J- and D- other than that, really. And the things that happen in the story never happened to J- and D-. J-‘s dad was not a trucker. Nor did she have an affair with some professor who wore silk purple boxers and gave her a copy of Kundera’s book. (No one did that. I just threw that in because it amused me. :D) A writer takes the chaos of his subconscious and orders it in words for the world to see, in a way that pleases him. Geez. What a self-absorbed hobby. 😉
December 7th, 2004 at 7:50 pm
[quote:fe13b70e3c=”sophia_de_philo”]A writer takes the chaos of his subconscious and orders it in words for the world to see, in a way that pleases him. [/quote:fe13b70e3c] heh i love the masculinity in that statement.. coming from a female writer.. i’m not into feminist theory just love the basis of this.. you automtically assume masculinity in this field..
December 7th, 2004 at 7:57 pm
[quote:68ae77fe0e=”Arglor”][quote:68ae77fe0e=”sophia_de_philo”]A writer takes the chaos of his subconscious and orders it in words for the world to see, in a way that pleases him. [/quote:68ae77fe0e]heh i love the masculinity in that statement.. coming from a female writer.. i’m not into feminist theory just love the basis of this.. you automtically assume masculinity in this field..[/quote:68ae77fe0e]<—Grammar Nazi. I didn’t do that because I was assuming masculinity, I did it because that was the way I was taught grammar. I think there’s a debate about that these days though. I noticed the irony as I was writing it. Thought about changing it, since I’m a “she” and it was my statement… But as you know, my only B in grad school at LSU was in feminist theory. I couldn’t care less about pronoun inclusion… I suppose I should, since I believe in the power of language to change mindsets… ahhhhh, sue me. Hey. Look at your quote encircling mine. It’s as if you’re embracing me. Oh God, I’m sick. Come on, Christmas…