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Old 02-06-2004, 12:38 PM   #16
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Originally Posted by Intrepid Homoludens
I want more. Adding to Fairygdmther's criticism, it's this kind of severity that discomforts some 'sensitive' minds, for better or worse. So what? Why should you appease just one type of demographic? That you may be distancing a particular audience has more to do with their self-perceptions and decisions rather than what you present to them. There are other audiences that would appreciate this kind of parable, even if it is spiced to render it unpalatable in places. Pragmatically, you can't be both a good [fiction] writer and an apologist at the same time.
This is what I want to say, except that Intrepid put it in a more eloquent way so I'm using his words instead.
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