tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20078507.post3254871254765561606..comments2023-11-18T09:51:52.115+10:30Comments on Medlar Comfits: Protagonists as sugar-teatsanna tambourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01338581782386113668noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20078507.post-75294102128672666752010-10-18T14:49:04.546+10:302010-10-18T14:49:04.546+10:30Pale Fire. Delicious! In that vein, may I recommen...Pale Fire. Delicious! In that vein, may I recommend Steve Aylett's modern classic, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1560256842" rel="nofollow">Lint</a>, followed by <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Your-Point-Steve-Aylett/dp/1933293179" rel="nofollow">And Your Point Is? Scorn and Meaning in Jeff Lint's Fiction</a>, edited by Aylett. I've featured an excerpted essay from Scorn in the Virtuous Medlar Circle <a href="http://www.annatambour.net/And-Your-Point-Is-SteveAylett.htm" rel="nofollow">here</a>.<br /><br />And as for apathy, I didn't quite know what to say about this. I certainly agree with you on one level. "Please make me worth loving or despising," could be the prayer of people in a relationship, as boredom is the greatest killer. But I'm also reminded of the woman who won a trip around the world, and was too apathetic, after weeks at sea, to get out when the ship landed at a continent she'd never seen. Boring people are the most bored, as everything that doesn't relate directly to them, bores them. That's not to say that there aren't way too many characters in fiction (as well as the stories they travel in) that also move even scintillating me to apathy. And as for movies, cgi has enabled movies to produce apathy creators on an industrial batching level. I agree with the <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/atthemovies/txt/s2985258.htm" rel="nofollow">statement</a>, "The development of CGI special effects has contributed to the death of character and story." But back to my original aside. I must admit that the port town was so boring, I can only remember 1) its name, and 2) it didn't rock.anna tambourhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01338581782386113668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20078507.post-24759494442145608382010-10-18T01:17:26.465+10:302010-10-18T01:17:26.465+10:30But there is a difference between a protag. you do...But there is a difference between a protag. you don't care for and one you don't care about, I think. Humbert frequently moved me to depths of loathing, but better animosity than apathy.JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01544406500208399638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20078507.post-58298781942278876642010-10-18T01:08:31.405+10:302010-10-18T01:08:31.405+10:30I believe Pale Fire's even greater. As for the...I believe Pale Fire's even greater. As for the rest of this post, huzzah! and amen.JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01544406500208399638noreply@blogger.com