A sad and beautiful world

[Tim Strzechowski]

Personally, I read that Introduction as a fictional extension of the whole
narrative, a la
Charles Kinbote or John Ray.  As such, I can forgive the arrogance of said
sentence.

Irony to the left of me, irony to the right . . .

T


>
> I was so pissed off by the audacious and arrogant last sentence of his
> introduction that I refused to read the novel.  He writes: "If we,
citizens,
> do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar
> of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless
> dreams".  I think I threw the book across the room.  I've heard from
others
> that it's very good though.
>