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This thread is for comments on In Borderlands Between the Clans, by Matthew Cheney.
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David Moles
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Gibson said something -- in his intro to Stable Strategies and Others, I think -- to the effect that he (when he started out) wanted the SF world to be a bohemia; that it thinks of itself as a ghetto; but that it's really a village. I don't think things are much different in the world of literary fiction.
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Matt Cheney
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You're right, David, it's not much different. Some differences, sure, and litfic is just as fractured and fragmented in terms of affinities as specfic. Where it gets really interesting is the world of poetry -- poets can be brutal to each other.
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Anonymous
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"Where it gets really interesting is the world of poetry -- poets can be brutal to each other."
Poetry is like religion, right? with a lot of fighting among the various factions, everyone trying pass off their opinions or whimsy as fact, pretending they're the pillars of culture or morality when in reality they support nothing but their own fragile egos.
Of course the world's religions are _much_ better at the business of extortion and throwing their weight around. It's much harder to find people willing to kill or die for their love of a poet or a school of poetry. In this way perhaps the brutality of the poets should be prefered to the brutality of the religious.
Ernie Chalmers
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