yeah, that's right. all that learning and ive acquired the skill to compact every single opinion, view and taste i have into one simple-sentence utterance. that's exactly it. it's a critical skill that one acquires after many years of intense introspection and philosophical wrangling. but, i have emerged with that extremely rare talent of being able to encompass my entire world view, education and skillset into single, opinionated statements on completely irrelevant nothings.
dilbert, how adroit of you!
[i say i don't rate golding as an author because there is no consistency of quality in his oeuvre. im not saying he's a bad writer, just that in a literary sense there is nothing 'outstanding' about his work that would put it on an especially high pedestal above the other authors of the period; golding condensed many thematic concerns and created a few good cautionary tales about humanity and the human condition at a time best summarized as 'the age of anxiety'. but, for all extensive purposes, it was a rather shallow series of allegories. the characterization was extremely poor, which is not something you expect in a novel of the period-- the characters in lord of the flies were functional archetypes of given personalities, not fully evolved personalities with any sense of real humanism. that is a severe weakness, for example-- one of many. i really don't know why you're trying to suggest i have "learned nothing" after years of study just because i don't personally think william golding is up there with the best prose writers of the 20th century. the book is important for a reason, but that reason isn't especially its literary/artistic merit. as i said on the nobel prize, it's obviously political and so of course it "sucks" for gauging literary merit-- which was what i was trying to do. a more fitting prize would be the pulitzer, or even the hideously-populist man booker prize. the nobel prize for literature acknowledges books with a wider political/social/cultural agency... not books that are outstanding pieces of art in themselves. that's all im saying, and all i have said.]
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