"Enjoying being insulting is a youthful corruption of power. You lose your taste for it when you realize how hard people try, how much they mind, and how long they remember."
Martin Amis, The War Against Cliche
John Gardner, from On Moral Fiction (1978) Merdistes ! Love it - I wonder if it is his own coinage? And who did he have in mind?
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There is something so delicious, so sensually pleasing, when you come across a thinker whose ideas fit – not your own ideas, but impulses th... -
Sabbath = the great deaf-spot (auditory and ideological) of the Last Waltz/Stranded generation of rockwrite Every generation of rockwrite h...
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