tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18968172.post6809812615664453931..comments2023-11-03T01:13:22.719-07:00Comments on The Rabbi Is IN with Rabbi Rami: FarfurUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18968172.post-43086948539455319032007-07-18T11:31:00.000-07:002007-07-18T11:31:00.000-07:00Some of Ursula K. LeGuin's fiction (notably "The D...Some of Ursula K. LeGuin's fiction (notably "The Dispossessed," and the later Earthsee) interesting in this light; LeGuin clearly is interested in, and wrestles with, how to tell a story with mythic "oomph" without becoming part of a particular (male?) tradition of violence in storytelling.Matthewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05233633373155813840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18968172.post-88162381286778590252007-07-18T10:20:00.000-07:002007-07-18T10:20:00.000-07:00I"ve argued in the past that violence, or conflict...I"ve argued in the past that violence, or conflict, is intrinsic to storytelling and is perhaps a prereq for a story's emotional oomph. But reading this blog brings home to me the contradictions inherent in my own position. I'm appalled by Farfur--but some secret part of me still thinks its genius. In my own writing, violence is a recurrant theme. I try to treat it with irony, but I also find a perverse pleasure in taking on the role of bad guy. I'm attracted to, for instance, an Elvis Costello song whose speaker is an abusive husband; or to Jarvis Cocker's charicatures of voyeur/stalkers; and, of course, Stephen Colbert's charicature of conservative news commentators. Physical and psychological violence is both a part of my imagination and my world, and my own positions vis a vis that violent impulse is something I want to wrestle and play with on the page. And yet. "Myth is stronger than reality." It's impossible not to recognize the moral implications of that statement for me as a myth maker and consumer. Where does that leave me?AaronHerschelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08886387346974535323noreply@blogger.com