tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26654079.post831341926413324179..comments2023-05-21T14:46:54.138+01:00Comments on FictionBitch: The Things You Can Sell and the Things that Make You SwoonElizabeth Baineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17193751871434773972noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26654079.post-87650970639128172008-10-01T09:12:00.000+01:002008-10-01T09:12:00.000+01:00Lottie, I didn't know about the Vogue shoot. You'v...Lottie, I didn't know about the Vogue shoot. You've just spoilt my day! (Though of course I'm glad to know about it)Elizabeth Baineshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17193751871434773972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26654079.post-25383835999474749632008-10-01T03:47:00.000+01:002008-10-01T03:47:00.000+01:00Interesting point. Much as I love fashion (and fre...Interesting point. Much as I love fashion (and frequently decry myself as shallow accordingly), the idea of using literature to sell clothes is in some ways as reprehensible as the recent Indian VOGUE shoot which used genuinely poor people to model thousand-dollar outfits.<BR/><BR/>Quite apart from anything else, shame on <I>The Guardian</I> for going through with a banal idea that should have been shot down as soon as it was mooted. Do they think we're fools?LottiePhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15464376197679468718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26654079.post-44692624844458435102008-09-23T13:03:00.000+01:002008-09-23T13:03:00.000+01:00A wonderfully written article by David Foster Wall...A wonderfully written article by David Foster Wallace which I thoroughly enjoyred reading. Thanks so much for this link Elizabeth.Franceshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12455584448055432913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26654079.post-87318069409187822962008-09-21T16:19:00.000+01:002008-09-21T16:19:00.000+01:00Exactly so, Tania: it's exactly what I'm grappling...Exactly so, Tania: it's exactly what I'm grappling with in my fiction: the tyranny of the selfish, self-centred, single-viewpoint story.Elizabeth Baineshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17193751871434773972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26654079.post-74890935246080571562008-09-21T15:15:00.000+01:002008-09-21T15:15:00.000+01:00Elizabeth, thanks so much for the link to David Fo...Elizabeth, thanks so much for the link to David Foster Wallace's speech, it touched me, especially when he said "It will be within your power to experience a crowded, loud, slow, consumer-hell-type situation as not only meaningful but sacred, on fire with the same force that lit the stars - compassion, love, the sub-surface unity of all things.". So true, yet so hard to do.Tania Hershmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15781460794034586895noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26654079.post-36635824625019386182008-09-21T14:24:00.000+01:002008-09-21T14:24:00.000+01:00Hi Nasim, it is indeed very sad about David Foster...Hi Nasim, it is indeed very sad about David Foster Wallace. A great loss.Elizabeth Baineshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17193751871434773972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26654079.post-55358443658495253832008-09-21T12:21:00.000+01:002008-09-21T12:21:00.000+01:00Hey Eliz, This is v sad about David Foster Wallace...Hey Eliz, This is v sad about David Foster Wallace, this is the first I'd heard. Re. the fashion/fiction article I'm so glad I didn't have the Guardian yesterday, it would have peeved me greatly. Your post has made me think though, more about why we choose at given times to reveal what our characters are wearing.nmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05477643084619789093noreply@blogger.com