ext_35136 ([identity profile] anima-mecanique.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] swan_tower 2006-08-19 08:30 am (UTC)

It is secular and political, reacting against "religiose moralism and consolatory mythicism," and hence feels real and messy. And it trusts the reader and the genre in two important ways: it avoids post-modern self-reference, and it avoids didacticism, instead letting meaning emerge naturally from metaphor.

I believe the phrase "Ha ha ha, oh wow" was invented to react to this statement.

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