Comments on: A Lament (of sorts) http://www.blackisthenewblood.com/2006/11/15/a-lament-of-sorts/ "...it was a dreary grey war of frozen corpses; frozen blood goes black." - William T. Vollmann, "Europe Central" Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:56:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Alex Covic http://www.blackisthenewblood.com/2006/11/15/a-lament-of-sorts/#comment-453 Thu, 16 Nov 2006 12:08:32 +0000 http://www.blackisthenewblood.com/2006/11/15/a-lament-of-sorts/#comment-453 As I am also waiting for the new Pynchon novel, I stumbled over a Kundera piece in the New Yorker, that I think, describes our mournings: "... a mediocre plumber may be useful to people, but a mediocre novelist who consciously produces books that are ephemeral, commonplace, conventional - thus not useful, thus burdensome, thus noxious - is contemptible" (Milan Kundera in TheNewYorker, Oct,9 2006,) I used to work in bookstores for 10 years. But I couldn't bear the stupid piles of insignificant trash around me and the people who demanded exactly that. As I am also waiting for the new Pynchon novel, I stumbled over a Kundera piece in the New Yorker, that I think, describes our mournings:

“… a mediocre plumber may be useful to people, but a mediocre novelist who consciously produces books that are ephemeral, commonplace, conventional - thus not useful, thus burdensome, thus noxious - is contemptible” (Milan Kundera in TheNewYorker, Oct,9 2006,)

I used to work in bookstores for 10 years. But I couldn’t bear the stupid piles of insignificant trash around me and the people who demanded exactly that.

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