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Originally Posted by Thomasin Dewhurst
Actually it was you who pushed my buttons by suggesting you liked his work.
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Now you're just being churlish, Thomasin, and I don't know what your motivation for it is. You couldn't be aiming at a less apt target.
I can speak for myself and here's what I said. I expressly stated that a small concession to a felt impact of the work -- you obviously felt one, too -- didn't mean that I "liked" it, and I also said it was disconcerting and disturbing, so much so that I declined to even post another image. Why in the world would you bother to go to the trouble to make a self-serving translation of that into my saying that I "liked" it?
Or insist that, because you had declared that I "liked" it, I had thereby somehow directed affront your way? I don't even know who you are -- nor you, me.
In any event, no, I'm not going to spew invective at Mueck or personally brand him as hateful, misanthropic, simple-minded or pretentious just because you don't approve of his work. Your imprimatur isn't the gauge of what interests or affects me.
As is the case with banned books, the stridency of personal vitriol leveled against this guy -- whom I had never heard of before this thread was posted -- now makes me want to know more about him.
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