It depends on what your trying to do by examining that crap. An interesting contrast to this statement might be the examination that Antonio Gramsci gives to very bad literature (missionary tracts, fascist magazine article, etc.) in his Prison Notebooks. Obviously, Gramsci is trying to see how this crap work (or doesn't work) in producing a national-popular culture and isn't really interested in focusing on denouncing the material as crap per se (although SF criticism has a healthy and entertaining strain of material that does just this... started by Damon Knight in In Search of Wonder....) robert wood
> Which is why it's sort of silly to focus on the crap -- as in posts
> slamming this or that musician. I would like to cite again Marianne
> Moore's preferences when she was editor of the Dial. Good books got long
> reviews. So-so books got short reviews. Bad books weren't renewed. I
> would like to see it become bad taste to show one's good taste by
> listing the things (books, magazines, musicians, restaurants, etc.) that
> one is too tasteful to accept.
>
> Carrol
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