Quote of the Day | 0301
We are asked to believe, usually by critics, that the most important factor in our response to a book should be its objective quality — a good book is a good book — but we know that’s not true. Mood and taste are important, self-evidently, but mood and taste are formed by educational background, profession, health, amount of leisure time, marital status, state of marriage, gender (men don’t read much fiction, depressingly), age, age of children, relationships with children, and parents, and siblings, and, possibly, an unfortunate experience with Thomas Pynchon’s V as an overambitious and pretentious teenager. All these and thousands of others are governing factors, and many of them are wildly inconstant.
[x]#5629 fan zondag 1 maart 2009 @ 18:01:10
