And sadly, I'm not even the tiniest bit surprised. It's so good being Australian, I can be so proud of what we've helped to achieve here.
Thank-you Xopher@433:
I'm going to have to make that quote my email signature for a while. Priceless.
ethan@294: "Truck Gravity" is a wonderful expression and succinctly describes everything this blog has been discussing. I propose a motion that it immediately pass into the vernacular as an apt description of all such reprehensible behaviour.
Teresa’s comments @39 about the Canterbury Tales and Chaucer prompt me to add a similar assertion about works on Shakespeare:
a) any work that claims to pull biographical data from the plays and poems
b) any one who claims they know who really wrote the plays (perhaps this one almost goes with saying)
c) theatrical productions that waffle on about The Tempest being his final play and Prospero’s soliloquy about book drowning being Shakespeare’s final farewell (saw one 2 years ago that went on and on about this fallacy – pure truck gravity at its finest).
Thank-you Theresa for your surgical analysis of that most vile letter, when I first read it in SMH I thought about sending it to you but wasn't sure if it was appropriate. I'm so glad that some else did. What Michael Rakusin has to say about the declining state of A&R bookstores is correct. For years I have watched their declining stock and wondered what was going on and thanks to his response I now know. There are a small number of excellent independent bookstores remaining here in Brisbane, all obviously run by people who understand the industry and the products they sell, none of them belong to A&R.
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