Subject: Re: Some "Sirius" criticism (Help me refute it!) [LONG]
From: eric@npri6.npri.com (Eric Williams)
Date: 1991-10-10, 08:26
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <1991Oct8.122549.7202@ugle.unit.no>, Roar.Larsen@termo.unit.no (Roar Larsen) writes:
> > Here in Norway there exists a (generally very good!) magazine [...]
> > called "Sirius". 
[...]
> > Exerpts from the article follow...
[...]
[The article asks: Are we dealing with bunkum...]
> > Or are we dealing with more genuine and 
> > honest motives of story-telling, meant to illuminate and examine 
> > existensial questions asked by mankind since the dawn of time etc.? A kind 
> > of showdown between western and eastern thinking?
[...]
> > 
> > Roar Larsen,
> > Trondheim, Norway

I think the motives of storytelling are to entertain and amaze, not to
examine existential questions. For those in the literary community who
whould raise their voices and shout, "Style Over Content!"-- well,
I agree. I like style, without any political, sociological or humanistic
"benefit." I also like style mixed with content, cooked style, raw
style, style with content fricassee, and even (sometimes) mostly content
with the style in a small plastic saucer on the side. That TP entertains
SOME of us demonstrates that it relates a story attuned to the
tastes of a portion of the global audience.  There is no dearth of
artistry in successfully crossing borders, geopolitical and mental...