Thought for a Wednesday: It's Not "Entertainment" That Needs Defending

Great authors are not to blame for your lack of education., June 17, 1999 By A Customer:

For God's sake— why do so many people write these idiotic reviews, these reviews that are nothing so much as confessions of stupidity? Why do people believe that the primary aim of all art, even that of fictive prose, is absolute simplistic clarity? These are the same chuckleheads who fail to understand impressionism and cubism; they are the people who fail to recognize that distortions of photographic...