Monday, September 25, 2006

Conscience

A PREMISE of this campaign was that all we had to do was expose the literary system's intrinsic corruption and the entire rotten structure would come tumbling down. The plan assumed a minimum level of conscience among members of the literary and publishing worlds. This assumption may have been wrong.

3 comments:

Frank Marcopolos said...

I also think it's really difficult to get people stirred up about ANYTHING these days, perhaps due to the anesthetic of television's omnipotence, or the lack of a draft, or whatever it might be. So I would think it would be doubly tough to get people stirred up about literary matters, when even bloody wars for blatantly made-up reasons don't even get people riled up.

Bruce Hodder said...

You lads and lasses may not have changed the system, but you HAVE made things livelier, and stimulated debate, and forced people to come out into the open with spurious defences of their positions. Which is an admirable achievement in itself, though you may not have done (yet!) everything you have intended to.

And once an idea is born it can never be killed.

So I for one applaud you.

james chapman said...
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