Posts by giovanni tiso
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Me, I'm still smiling so widely half my face has fallen off after getting an email from A Writer I Truly Admire.
Tell me about it! :-)
But this one was a silly thing. However I believe I shall never wash the Internet again all the same.
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their call sounds a lot like that of the Greater Crested Fuckwad.
Most popular but least played bird on Morning Report ever.
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Or am I cheating myself out of an opportunity to sue Twitter here?
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Nicely done! Linkage?
Oh, well, if you must TWIST MY ARM.
Heh. I don't see your name on it Giovanni.
That's actually my favourite part. But just so nobody thinks ill of anybody, the original tweeter had included the link to my post, which then got lost in the retweeting. Not @tragedyhatherle's fault, in other words.
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She is far from dismissive of science fiction,
Yes, we have been through that, that's roughly twenty years after her original comments. I have no particular quarrel with the distinction she's come to in her wiser old age, much as it's a tad obvious. Her earlier dismissals would have been fine too, except they did away with half a dozen feminist writers that had somewhat pre-empted Handmaid's Tale - it would have been nice to recognise them. Still, Handmaid is a powerful book and more recently I enjoyed her series of lectures on debt. They used to be available on the CBC website but no more, alas.
And your claim that I think Sci-Fi is for "teh stupid" is ridiculous and offensive.
The emo comment? The painting kittens thing? Come on now, Paul. You make it sound as if Keri had lost her rag for no reason whatsoever, and that's not nice. I'm with you on never having this discussion ever, ever, ever again though.
In closing, I wanted to ever-so-casually point out that earlier today I was quoted by squids-in-space writer William Gibson, so I might just take the rest of the year off. Somebody feed me grapes.
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I'm all for that - readers find works important to them for a whole lot of reasons, just as profound and significant as any from the hallowed halls of academia or the smoking saloons of publisher's row.
When I came over from Italy (which is where I am originally from) I could bring a limited number of books and it was an interesting exercise. I essentally had to decide what was my personal canon, and discovered that of course it's not as simple as picking the books I enjoyed the most, or even the ones I was most likely to reread. I brought the books that were important to me, for a variety of reasons, as well as books that I knew would be harder to find. I think the publishing industry and academia, at their best, work in the same way: they aid the circulation of books that are seen as having some value beside the one dictated by their commercial success and shelf life. Academics in particular strive to define what it is that makes a book valuable or important. Hardly an untained process, I know, but there's a place for it.
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(Still trying to formulate things more clearly...)
I really do appreciate your efforts, but Paul is now shifting to canonicity a discussion that was always about the trolling. Science fiction people are Emo, sci-fi is to literature as painting kittens is to art... remember? That he claims to be defending Atwood's right to define her own work is also disingenous, for Atwood wasn't saying I don't feel I belong in science-fiction, she said science-fiction is for teh stupid. Paul thinks that too. But please remember to be civil to him whenever he feels like pointing it out.
Can we move on now?
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"Canons", Sacha, one en.
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I read an essay not so long ago which was called something like "Why Women And Gays Have Ruined Sci-Fi"
Chris Trotter is branching out, then?
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All the reporting states that the chat logs were the reason the trial was, basically, abandoned. The chat logs are all previous to the event in question, so don't mention anything about what happened on that evening. And the prosecutor has said that his "particular concern" was her remarks about the Irish men.
It's hard to know without access to the transcripts, but I think that if she shared fantasies of group sex with this guy, and if they resembled or could be potrayed to resemble a rape fantasy (reading the post you linked to on the Hand Mirror - which still has me fuming, one year on - it's not hard to see how easy this would be for a defence lawyer to achieve), then it would make the case pretty much impossible to prosecute. Because you're right to note that the she said/they said dynamic is not fundamentally different from the Schollum-Shipton case, but remind me how that trial ended?
So on the one hand that the case was abandoned doesn't surprise me, it's the lack of outrage and regret which is dispiriting.