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proximoception ([personal profile] proximoception) wrote2006-04-29 03:44 am

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This James Wood sure is a bitchy little fellow. Born magazine writer, too.

[identity profile] proximoception.livejournal.com 2006-05-02 10:18 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, that one. He accuses McCarthy of pretentiousness, among other things. This from someone whose every word, every ill-dropped name, every outlandish metaphor is pitched to convey smug omniscience and superiority to his reviewees.

Not that it's a stance he invented, that or the singsong Euphuistic "here's what may be a fault, here's what may be a virtue, here's the fault recapped but moderated and this time I'm sure of it" Time magazine paragraph logic he never deviates from. But people have a choice of becoming telemarketers, car salespeople, things like that. And nice ones don't.