On elite and ambiguous writing

[John Doe]

Hmmm...don't know; can't say...but...I find it
interesting how there's "good" cultural stereotypes
and "bad" ones - when an Irishman makes a braod,
sweeping claim about "his" people's proclivities, it's
A o.k.....but if an Italian should do so about the
Irish, then it's Bad....more evidence to sustain the
charge that adult, professional life is just like high
school all over again...lol!


--- Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net> wrote:

> I wonder if John Banville would consider Pynchon to
> be an honorary  
> Irish writer?
> 
> 
> "English writers for the most part try to follow
> Orwell's dictum that  
> prose should be a pane of clear glass through which
> you look," he  
> said. "But Irish writers think of prose style as a
> distorting lens.  
> We love that ambiguity; we love that a word can have
> three or four  
> meanings at the same time."
> 
> 
>
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/02/college/coll02banv.html
> 



	
		
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