tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8183662.post111100882540126938..comments2023-06-13T21:46:20.222+01:00Comments on A few words: Martin Amis loses the plotUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8183662.post-1111610652425864552005-03-23T20:44:00.000+00:002005-03-23T20:44:00.000+00:00I find the topic itself to be less important than ...I find the topic itself to be less important than the style and quality of the expression. No matter how interested I am in a particular topic, if it's not well presented, I will struggle to get through it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8183662.post-1111089146243339092005-03-17T19:52:00.000+00:002005-03-17T19:52:00.000+00:00Writing about dental work is different to writing ...Writing about dental work is different to writing about love or death or going shopping. You care about your teeth, but really I only care about mine; I can sympathise but not empathise; the most you can hope in writing is to make someone care how you feel about your teeth. If you write about a more universal topic, you can get further, and someone feel the same as you. <BR/><BR/>But anyway, a blog is for rants. Amis' autobiography has <I>two whole chapters</I> about his teeth, and his dentists figure more prominently than his friends. That's not literature, it's therapy (and the trick is that this the therapy someone else pays for). There's a section where he tries to argue that dental pain is the worst there is, so all those birth-giving mothers, torture victims etc are just wimps.Martin Locockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17198668398629742974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8183662.post-1111082369170516712005-03-17T17:59:00.000+00:002005-03-17T17:59:00.000+00:00Hey! What are saying about people who rant about t...Hey! What are saying about people who rant about their dental work. 'Cause er... well, you know... In case anybody ever does, which they probably wouldn't...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com