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- From: dgoodwin@fossa.rmNUG.ORG (Doug Goodwin)
- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Subject: Re: taboo subjects?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul26.162334.2759@nugget.rmNUG.ORG>
- Date: 26 Jul 92 16:23:34 GMT
- References: <1992Jul26.023810.1516@math.ucla.edu>
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- In misc.writing article <1992Jul26.023810.1516@math.ucla.edu> you wrote:
- > Has anyone else encountered what I call "taboos" either in a writing class
- > or with an agent/publisher? Are there any topics encountered by any of
- > the others on this group that, by virtue (or vice) of what they are,
- > created such extremely negative response as to discourage exploration?
-
- Cheers to you! Tell your agent to jump in the creek and take your tabu subject
- to someone with an open mind. Tabus beg to be explored, and I think you'll find
- that your work will benefit from the excitement of knowing people out there may
- find your subject heinous and depraved.
-
- You may also find yourself at the crest of a new cultural obsession as the
- general reading public explores the tabu subject with you.
-
- Hell, even if they hate it you have the advantage of all that bitter invective
- launched at your work. See what tabu did for James Joyce, Ana s Nin or William
- Burroughs!
-