I appreciate your posting a Thought for the Day each day, I look forward to them, and I even appreciate this one, but I have to say it is facile in the extreme. It does not even have the virtue of being cynical, but merely conventionally sour. And I have no love for the great majority of politicians.
I actually had that feeling myself, but I thought it was the most interesting of the Ellroy quotes I could find. I don't post them because I agree with them, but only to put them out there.
I quite understand, and I commented not to criticize its inclusion, but its sentiment. I like much of Ellroy, but, hoping not to sound unkind, I believe he has pushed the literary and philosophical uses of an admittedly awful childhood (which I think lies behind a quote such as this) beyond the bursting point. Dickens and the blacking factory is not a patch on it.
I appreciate your posting a Thought for the Day each day, I look forward to them, and I even appreciate this one, but I have to say it is facile in the extreme. It does not even have the virtue of being cynical, but merely conventionally sour. And I have no love for the great majority of politicians.
ReplyDeleteI actually had that feeling myself, but I thought it was the most interesting of the Ellroy quotes I could find. I don't post them because I agree with them, but only to put them out there.
ReplyDeleteI quite understand, and I commented not to criticize its inclusion, but its sentiment. I like much of Ellroy, but, hoping not to sound unkind, I believe he has pushed the literary and philosophical uses of an admittedly awful childhood (which I think lies behind a quote such as this) beyond the bursting point. Dickens and the blacking factory is not a patch on it.
ReplyDeleteI think you're absolutely right.
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