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Fulsome Praise For Flat Characters

Fulsome Praise For Flat Characters

‘It is only round people who are fit to perform tragically for any length of time and can move us to any feelings.’
I used to believe that this was true.
Plainly.
Now, that it is untrue.
Obviously.
At least, I hope that’s the case.
Otherwise, soon we’ll all be serial-killer groupies.
Mob wives.
Nazi sympathisers.
Why?
Well, without trying, we can’t help but absorb –
Read/see/hear –
Every aspect of these globular characters’ histories.

The Transit of Genius

The Transit of Genius

‘In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.’
Andy Warhol didn’t say.
He said something like it, allegedly.
But no one is sure what he meant by it.
What he might have said – less ambiguously – was:
In the past, everyone was fabulous for fifteen years.