More PKD genius
Jan. 31st, 2003 03:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lauralh[when asked why he wrote SF]
"Its audience is not hamstrung by middle-class prejudices and will listen to genuinely new ideas. "
"The notion that a novel needs a moral or message is a bourgeois concept... the writer is not a bit superior in morals to his audience anyway -- and frequently he's inferior to them. What moral can he really teach them?'
"Heinlein has done more to harm SF than has any other writer, I think. The dialogue in Stranger in a Strange Land has to be read to believed. 'Give the little lady a box of cigars!' a character cries, meaning that the girl has said something that is correct. One wonders what the rejoinder would be if a truly inspired remark had to be answered, rather than a routine statement; it would probably burst the book's gizzard."
I have a prejudice against the middle class too, I suppose. And I hated Stranger in a Strange Land.
"Its audience is not hamstrung by middle-class prejudices and will listen to genuinely new ideas. "
"The notion that a novel needs a moral or message is a bourgeois concept... the writer is not a bit superior in morals to his audience anyway -- and frequently he's inferior to them. What moral can he really teach them?'
"Heinlein has done more to harm SF than has any other writer, I think. The dialogue in Stranger in a Strange Land has to be read to believed. 'Give the little lady a box of cigars!' a character cries, meaning that the girl has said something that is correct. One wonders what the rejoinder would be if a truly inspired remark had to be answered, rather than a routine statement; it would probably burst the book's gizzard."
I have a prejudice against the middle class too, I suppose. And I hated Stranger in a Strange Land.
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Date: 2003-01-31 07:58 pm (UTC)May I post a copy of that statement on BW?
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Date: 2003-01-31 10:27 pm (UTC)