if they call it 'good' fiction, people are insulted.
if they call it 'best' fiction, people are insulted.
if they call it 'literary' fiction, people are insulted.
any word that indicates a qualitative ideal, that's pretentious, it's elitism, it's snobbery, it's mean.
what WOULD make people happy? here's our zine, we just picked stuff at random 'cos we don't really care about what it's in it. sorry about all those typos and formatting errors and the fact that a sentinel story got in there by accident, but that's fair, right?
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carisma_sensei
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Date: 2008-01-27 06:17 pm (UTC)if they call it 'good' fiction, people are insulted.
if they call it 'best' fiction, people are insulted.
if they call it 'literary' fiction, people are insulted.
any word that indicates a qualitative ideal, that's pretentious, it's elitism, it's snobbery, it's mean.
what WOULD make people happy? here's our zine, we just picked stuff at random 'cos we don't really care about what it's in it. sorry about all those typos and formatting errors and the fact that a sentinel story got in there by accident, but that's fair, right?