Look here, being intelligible is not what it seems. You mean by understanding that you can talk about it in the way that you have a habit of talking – putting it into other words. But I mean by understanding enjoyment… If you enjoy it you understand it… If you did not enjoy it, why do you make a fuss about it?
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The idea of narrative or fiction, the idea of creating verisimilitude based on characters and plot situations – completely hokey Victorian notion. The creative writing people are generally, you know, total, total hacks. You know, they are living in another, that are living in some previous century, or living in some previous planet. They’re still involved with this therapeutic, crappy ideology about letting students express their inner selves and these little epiphanies of lyric blubble, you know, I mean, it’s a joke, it’s a terrible joke.
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Bruce Andrews