Thank you for your candour. My story isn’t so dissimilar. It doesn’t assuage all the pain, but let me elaborate on something you acknowledge—how very wild and weird the world, and hence any potential audience, has become. Suppose, for instance, Defoe, or Mary Shelley, or Gide, or Nadine Gordimer, were presenting their work, just as they created it, in our world—it’s hard to imagine how they could make an impression on IG or TT or any of the rest of the noise. Possibly—but possibly not. We have to keep devising ways to say what needs saying, and to talk to each other, storytellers and their audiences.
Thank you for your candour. My story isn’t so dissimilar. It doesn’t assuage all the pain, but let me elaborate on something you acknowledge—how very wild and weird the world, and hence any potential audience, has become. Suppose, for instance, Defoe, or Mary Shelley, or Gide, or Nadine Gordimer, were presenting their work, just as they created it, in our world—it’s hard to imagine how they could make an impression on IG or TT or any of the rest of the noise. Possibly—but possibly not. We have to keep devising ways to say what needs saying, and to talk to each other, storytellers and their audiences.