The history of religion as an institutional or social mode is a continuous horror. At this very moment we see this with the wretched Mr Rushdie, who, by the way, alas, is not much of a writer. I tried to read Midnights Children and found myself quite bored; I had tried to read The Satanic Verses, which seems to be very wordy, very neo-Joycean, very much an inadequate artifice. It is not much better than an upper-middle-brow attempt at serious fiction. Poor wretched fellow, who can blame him? - Harold Bloom The Art of Criticism No. 1 The Paris Review *Moral: no writer, however great, however competent, is too big not to have towering figures in the field of literary criticism describe his works - and even his art - in unflattering terms. Ipso facto, concentrate on writing and leave the critics bother their heads over the worth of your oeuvre. Selah*
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