[lit-ideas] Re: Arrivederci, Mr. Bush...

  • From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 00:40:03 -0500

We might all want to be liked


Many years ago, a friend of mine wrote to Roland Barthes, telling him 
how disgusted she was with his approach to literary judgment.

After a while, he replied. His letter began, "I write so that I can be 
loved from afar, but in your case I see that I have failed."

This jarred and humbled my friend who went back to Barthes, and 
eventually his writing won her over. She was composing a second letter 
to him to let him know he had succeeded when she got the news that he 
had been run over.

So I guess if we're going to be loved from afar, people had better get 
on with it, stop mucking about and wasting time.


Eric



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