Hemingway
Steinbeck
Algren
Vonnegut
(but not Burroughs and maybe not Kerouac)
and there are others I suppose
they work you over for a few pages of acceptable details
of plot and character insight that twist and entwine and
finally knot and once knotted
need to be loosened through a dialectic trick of posing
opposite thoughts against each other until an impression
of balance between words is restored
between words...
it's the classic scenario of an author (as dictator) taking
credit for solving an imagined conflict he instigated in
order to discover some applicable principle of life that
unfortunately exists only within the same foolish pages
of his frivolous script
if it was a case of a cat chasing her own tail it would be
cute but it's not
it's more like a doctor killing his patient and then balling
about the quality of medicine these days
all at the wrong of right...
