Friday, April 18, 2008

On the money ...

... `A Way of Taking Things Particularly Hard'.

“The New Yorker has always dealt with experience not by trying to understand it but by prescribing the attitude to be adopted toward it. This makes it possible to feel intelligent without thinking, and it is a way of making everything tolerable, for the assumption of a suitable attitude toward experience can give one the illusion of having dealt with it adequately.”

This not only sounds as if it were written yesterday, but also applied to more than just The New Yorker. Robert Warshow also thought - as I do myself - that Arthur Miller was not a very good dramatist.

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