Lupin quotes was Re: Never again

[Barry Arrowsmith]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)" <catlady at w...> 
wrote:
> > 
> > Pippin:
> > But I wonder if Nabakov felt that way? He had to spend an awful 
> > lot of time in Humbert's head.
> 
> That would correlate with all the cliches about how artists must
> suffer to do great art.

How true.
Unfortunately too many authors see no reason why their readers
shouldn't suffer too. Ah! The agonies of a split infinitive! The gastric
discomfort caused by a surfeit of litotes, brain death by cliche,
plumbago from leaden plot progression - not forgetting lumber
pain from wooden characterisation.

There is a tale oft told that in a happy land far, far away there is
an annual survey to choose the writer most wish to see suffer
retribution for their heinous crimes against humanity. The poll
winner is locked in a soundproof cell and recordings of the works
of Lionel Fanshawe are piped in without surcease. For a nominal
entrance fee members of the public can wile away a pleasant
Sunday afternoon watching an author foam at the mouth.
It's called aversion therapy.

Kneasy