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- From: jon@chopin.udel.edu (Jon Deutsch)
- Subject: Re: Mostly Harmful?
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:26:23 GMT
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- In article <1k2f57INNdmv@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> ginsu@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Wes Simonds) writes:
- |>Doc writes:
- |>
- |>No... but if YOU were paid a million bucks to do a job before you'd even done
- |>it, wouldn't you at least try to do it right? And not spend a month and call
- |>it a wrap regardless of personal standards of quality? I wouldn't care if
- |>MH was the best DNA could do at the time, but if you ask me, it wasn't. The
- |>man is just spoiled and sick of having to listen to people ask for more HH.
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- It's easy to see why MH was the worst of the 5 -- look at the
- cirumstances surrounding its creation:
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- When DA wrote the first 3 (poss. 4) books, he was still in touch with
- the "writer's life" including hardships, pain, and would do anything
- for a buck (sorry, pound). They say that pain is the root of all
- comedy, and I tend to believe that.
-
- But, it's been quite a long time since DA has seen this lifestyle,
- and is in a new lifestyle of fame, fortune, and GOBS of pressure!
- Pressure to write better books. He is a tough act to follow, even
- for himself!
- I know that when I write a fabulous peice of music, I am worried
- sick that I'll never come up with anything of that quality again.
- It is thoughts like these that inhibit creativity. Instead of seeing
- a never-ending landscape of ideas, you see a narrow path that you
- feel you must follow if you are going to succeed.
- It's a real bummer.
-
- So, try to keep these things in mind when ripping DA apart for
- writing a less-than-above-average book. He probably didn't even
- want to write it in the first place.
-
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