tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36835112.post6933657564735372191..comments2023-04-09T03:34:12.677-04:00Comments on William's Ramblings: What's in GenreWilliam Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09779582298787431216noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36835112.post-47533220903675062752010-02-25T19:35:20.740-05:002010-02-25T19:35:20.740-05:00You know how obsessed I am with this topic. I thin...You know how obsessed I am with this topic. I think all literature is genre, sometimes the term is an arbitrary phrase thrown around for marketing purposes, sometimes its something uttered by elitists to pacify ego, and sometimes its a linguist's attempt to define the utterance and meaning between one transmitting an idea via an accepted convention and one receiving it.<br /><br />By the way, my copy of Pallid Light will be arriving tomorrow via Amazon. I'm expecting you to autograph it when we next see one another.Stewart Sternberg (half of L.P. Styles)https://www.blogger.com/profile/00895152179113722902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36835112.post-81406661006408488772010-02-25T14:06:09.829-05:002010-02-25T14:06:09.829-05:00Thanks, William. This helped me understand this t...Thanks, William. This helped me understand this topic much more easily than if I had chose to read the 30 texts of literary theory.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14546882686381428986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36835112.post-82230226566489692292010-02-24T22:04:13.583-05:002010-02-24T22:04:13.583-05:00To paraphrase Freud, sometimes a white whale is ju...To paraphrase Freud, sometimes a white whale is just an albino cetacean.Steve Buchheithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12999709767641212586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36835112.post-2312786722261937372010-02-24T11:28:45.380-05:002010-02-24T11:28:45.380-05:00I haven't read PALLID LIGHT yet (sorry) but I ...I haven't read PALLID LIGHT yet (sorry) but I just read the IFP review of the novel. Seeing the protagonist's name "Rand," I immediately wondered: Is there a connection to Ayn Rand in the story?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com