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dreamer_easy) wrote2008-10-21 06:34 pm
dreamer_easy) wrote2008-10-21 06:34 pm
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"Note also the ambivalence or duplicity with which success (exoteric, external, commercial) is desired and feared in cultural circles, and the importance of gaining the respect of a small group over and above that of the public. To ignore the public is, ultimately, the actual negation of culture: a failure to communicate, but also salvation from the perdition of commerce and success, a guarantee of purity."
Gabriel Zaid, So Many Books, p 52
Y HALO THAR fandom. You'd like to be the "small group", wouldn't you? The cognoscenti whose disapprobation trumps the acclaim of the unwashed mundanes? And you ain't. lulz
Gabriel Zaid, So Many Books, p 52
Y HALO THAR fandom. You'd like to be the "small group", wouldn't you? The cognoscenti whose disapprobation trumps the acclaim of the unwashed mundanes? And you ain't. lulz