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                                             November 7, 2007


  An observation of late, based
  largely on introspection, I
  confess...
                                       QUIXAND
  It's often the case that
  stories that work, and work          ANNA_KARENINA
  really well, are extremely
  simple stories.                        I'm not just talking "boy
                                         meets girl/boy loses
  The sophistication that's              girl/ boy gets girl" --
  often supposed to be a                 I'm talking "boy meets
  necessity for great work               girl", *period*.
  would seem to be optional,
  just one way of going, not
  the only way of going.



                      That's a bit of a
                      reluctant admission
                      for me: I often use
                      "deep & complex" as        Part of the puzzle --
                      a synonym for "good".      and it may only be a
                                                 puzzle in my own
                                                 psychology -- is that
                                                 my tastes in art and
                                                 music, run far more
   (And it occurs to me                          highbrow (or at
   that this is what                             least, much further
   Goldman's "The                                from the mainstream)
   Princess Bride" is                            than my tastes in
   about... though                               fiction.
   framing it as a
   celebration of
   children's
   literature may
   obscure the point.)                          But then, maybe that's
                                                an exaggeration:

                                                   Punk rock (70s edition)
                                                   Gothic music (80s & 90s
                                                   versions)

                                                   Comic books, including
                                                   the superhero variety.




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