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Writing "For Our Time"?

Saturday, May 19, 2012

If one is gifted for, and does pursue, the writing of good novels, the question if he be writing "in our time" may be secondary. (It was, Certainly, not so for Cervantes.)

Not quite the same is true for authors of essays and satire.

If Their income is ok, Their reputation there with (or, mostly the same thing, thereby, at least, With Their wives and relatives), They May Not even consider the trouble.

Otherwise though, in the half-desert of some reception and little or no money earned, it is, at least for the better, more ambitious ones Necessary to ask: "Am I doing this righteously, Mainly just for" our time "?

Or, is it not wiser, apter to this givenName fate, Merely to take up some traits of the ruling zeitgeist, now and then poking some swine-snooted, dough-sooted, picking them up nonchalantly to go for goals beyond the now?

Can we not, shoulderstand Not exactly we, who are the givenName leisure (or rob it somewhere) to write what does not even pay for wine and cigs, let alone rent and health insurance, give a sh .. darned on what is the latest babble of some petty politician, half-naked celebrity, pseudo-philosophical talk show nitwit, the banksters whores, the blatant "scientific" lies of the shallow waters of the "expert" circus of the bigshot plutocrat urinals? (more ...)