one little technical problem about Honest John has to do with avoiding schadenfreuden. it never comes off well. you find a lot of it in cheap fiction. also schadenfreuden tends to make fiction cheap
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don't get me wrong, I haven't declared schadenfreuden a no-no for all my writing, just this one novel.
you would love this other thing that I have written with one twin telling the other the story of Apocalypse which has and/or will take place. in that, though, I make the schadenfreuden element obvert, not hidden, like you'd get in a Left Behind novel, where you go "those poor sinners" and jack off at the same time.
weird list, I mean they left out some significant films in favor of not as important ones released in the last ten years (or sometimes earlier). especially since they have such a broad defintion of dystopian, I can think of many, many worthy films which they excluded. also, according to them, SERENITY has a character named Dr. Simon. I actually don't like the movie in comparison to the series.
anyway, I thought of you yesterday I went to a networking dinner for queer women artists and thought you should have gone, except for the small physical distance which separates us geographically.
it had good food (some of which I provided, form the russian store down the street) and I liked socializing and I met one woman (not there but riding with her on the way back) who I liked and I would in future like to consider a friend.
on the minus side, the business-like side of artistic creation alienated me a bit when it seemed so far away from the art.
also, the meeting happened a block or so away from the Primal Scene of great significance to me, that I will write about (as fiction) in HONEST JOHN. that does not slot easily into either good or bad. I had not stopped out and walked around here in more than ten years if not longer.
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schadenfreude is difficult to make "come off well" (pun unintended), but it can be done.
perhaps with a couple revisions and a writers awareness about his/her moral intentions (or lack thereof), it can be near perfection.
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you would love this other thing that I have written with one twin telling the other the story of Apocalypse which has and/or will take place. in that, though, I make the schadenfreuden element obvert, not hidden, like you'd get in a Left Behind novel, where you go "those poor sinners" and jack off at the same time.
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sounds like the poisonwood bible.
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Top 50 Dystopian Movies of All Time
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anyway, I thought of you yesterday I went to a networking dinner for queer women artists and thought you should have gone, except for the small physical distance which separates us geographically.
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did you enjoy the dinner event?
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on the minus side, the business-like side of artistic creation alienated me a bit when it seemed so far away from the art.
also, the meeting happened a block or so away from the Primal Scene of great significance to me, that I will write about (as fiction) in HONEST JOHN. that does not slot easily into either good or bad. I had not stopped out and walked around here in more than ten years if not longer.
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