Occlumency and Spies. (Re: Mental Discipline in the WW: A Comparison...)

[eggplant107]

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"Wilson, Bruce" <brucewilson at m...> wrote:

> I think that Byatt's objection to JKR 
> is motivated by jealousy.  Byatt's 
> novels are regarded as 'better literature'
> by the  cognoscetti, but JKR us much more
> successful--and wealthy. (Richer 
> than the Queen, last I heard.)

I think that jealousy is big reason literature snobs don't like
Rowling, but they would never admit it even to themselves. But the
truth is that writers who can impress literary critics are a dime a
dozen, nor is their blessing a sign of artistic immortality. Have you
ever heard of Sully Prudhomme? Me neither, but he won the very first
Nobel Prize in literature in 1901 because they thought Mark Twain was
too popular and just wrote children's books. On the other hand writers
like Rowling who are extraordinarily popular across all cultures
around the world only come around once or twice a century. However I
do wish Rowling would use fewer adverbs in dialog attribution, he said
furiously. 

Eggplant