AtDDtA(15): Uproar

[Dave Monroe]

On 8/16/07, mikebailey at speakeasy.net <mikebailey at speakeasy.net> wrote:

> > 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!

Just posted a sort of conversation in URLs of the seminal documents on
"hysterical realism," for those of you following along @ home.
Meanwhile, remembering the immediate aftermath of 11 September 2001,
even then I couldn't help but laugh @ and/or be fearful of those
proclaiming "the death of irony" during the ascendancy/heyday of
hopefully the most ironic administration this country will ever see
(e.g., http://youtube.com/watch?v=qnV4tMvI0ME).  As Jon Stewart and
The Daily Show have proven night after night since, it's a
self-satirizing presidency.  Even RMN didn't provide this much
entertainment, or this much reason for worry.  It's a fine line
between laughetr and terror ...