Tuesday, March 22, 2005
I read this Village Voice article from a few years back just a few days ago. Ted Rall really lays into Art Spiegelman with this paragraph :
'When he wrote an obituary of Mad Magazine cartoonist Antonio Prohias for The New York Times Magazine's "The Lives They Lived" issue, the piece contained seven paragraphs, of which merely two referred to Prohias. The bulk of the piece was about Art, his early career and how he didn't particularly admire Prohias's work. The words I, me, and my appear 25 times in a 500-word article. It doesn't matter if he's analyzing Charles Addams, eulogizing a dead Cuban cartoonist, or reviewing an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery— it's always about Art.'
I thought about the above passage when I was re-reading my entry below. I don't think there's a paragraph that I don't start off with 'I'. I'm not sure if that's indicative of shitty writing or self absorbed writing.
I'm off to the Motherland tomorrow.
'When he wrote an obituary of Mad Magazine cartoonist Antonio Prohias for The New York Times Magazine's "The Lives They Lived" issue, the piece contained seven paragraphs, of which merely two referred to Prohias. The bulk of the piece was about Art, his early career and how he didn't particularly admire Prohias's work. The words I, me, and my appear 25 times in a 500-word article. It doesn't matter if he's analyzing Charles Addams, eulogizing a dead Cuban cartoonist, or reviewing an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery— it's always about Art.'
I thought about the above passage when I was re-reading my entry below. I don't think there's a paragraph that I don't start off with 'I'. I'm not sure if that's indicative of shitty writing or self absorbed writing.
I'm off to the Motherland tomorrow.
# posted by Die Brucke @ 2:11 AM 
