AtDDtA(15): Uproar

[mikebailey at speakeasy.net]

> From: Monte Davis 

>
> I sure can, and by any measure I'm much more a book kinda guy than a
> movie-TV kinda guy. That's why I find James Wood's strictures on the pop
> culture in what he denounces as "hysterical realism" so odd. 

I had the same thought, and had blocked out about half of a 
screed/rant about the subject - though the basis for mine
was that the abuses against which we find frantic prose in P's
books are worthy of frantic prose 
(the existence of a class of people whose 
financial interests thrive on war, for instance -- what
does Wood think would be a good tone of prose to discuss
the worldwide effects of those people in?) 
now you have added another objection on stylistic grounds!