clearest thinking coming from outside?
Posted by pxyzblmbk on September 09, 1997 at 19:54:37: In Reply to: wish I had some good images of posted by Morgan Garwood on September 09, 1997 at 19:38:42:
and what does that indicate ? I think this brief excerpt from the SUCK webzine, authored by one who is identified as Furious George, absolutely could not have originated from with a culture-as-paradigm mental environment... it's a quietly chilling thought that a community that has defined itself on it's in-touchness may discover itself to be so grossly out of sync and out of touch, lost in an endless moebus strip of travis bickel-esque monologues into a mirror. Yorker, equally romanced by the image of The Artist Who Dares, ran its own wheezy piece by Roger Angell, popping the provocative-yet-calculated query: 'Can we agree at last that Vladimir Nabokov's twisted, ironic shocker is the greatest American love story of them all?' The question is the Upper West Side equivalent of a desperate talk-radio host trying to pump up his dead phone lines with topics like 'Hitler - Has History Been Too Hard on Him?' or 'Should Americans Eat Dogs for Dinner?' But in the genre of Art über alles, these journos forget one thing: The artist can be wrong. political aversion and Angell's 'We're all adults here' pretentiousness overlook an important point - maybe, just maybe, Adrian Lyne blew it. Maybe his Lolita really does suck. Maybe Adrian Lyne's isn't the story of an aesthetic martyr, but of a martyr with learning disabilities. Lyne himself told Abramowitz, 'The book is ambivalent about Humbert. There's no simplistic condemnation.' that's the reason I like SUCK, and lots of people out there don't.... the bastards can actually THINK, like with their brains even; in mental environments where thought has been replaces with labored cliche and tedious, repetitive, formulaic disputes, nothing is as distasteful (read:threatening) as a mind in full possession of itself...
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