The only good author...
Author Poppy Z. Brite found a LiveJournal community inspired, among other things, by her work. Responding to someone who described her work thusly: “insipid boy-love novels in which all the characters are annoyingly normal”, she wrote:
I would like to respond to a rather snarky comment below by saying that if you think the characters in THE VALUE OF X are normal, I can’t help thinking you have a great deal to learn about normalcy. True, they don’t have funny-colored hair or body piercings, they don’t wear makeup, they don’t Worship The Night. I think part of growing up, though, is realizing that a great many people who exhibit these characteristics are in fact excruciatingly normal — or at least as “normal” as anyone is — while a lot of people who don’t feel the need to parade their differences are in fact unusual and interesting folks. Not that there’s anything wrong with parading one’s differences, but I don’t care for communities where it is a requirement.
…and she was banned from posting there.
(Via Boing Boing )
Not to deify Brite or anything, but I'll note that Jesus, in the flesh, probably would wind up being banned from the most fervently-religious churches and Christian sects...
Posted by CT on January 20 2004 07:16
Also, to go into a slightly lower-culture analogy, it reminds me of the scene from the movie "Back to School" where Rodney Dangerfield, playing an eccentric millionaire attending college, has to write a paper on Kurt Vonnegut. So he hires Kurt Vonnegut himself to help write it. The professor reads the paper, and says something to the effect of, "Whoever wrote this, obviously has no idea what Vonnegut was really trying to say."
Posted by Jimcat on January 20 2004 09:14