Comments on: http://htmlgiant.com/snippet/15756/ the internet literature magazine blog of the future Thu, 24 May 2012 23:44:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Blake Butler http://htmlgiant.com/snippet/15756/comment-page-1/#comment-29780 Blake Butler Tue, 29 Sep 2009 23:57:35 +0000 http://htmlgiant.com/?p=15756#comment-29780 I second that emotion I second that emotion

]]> By: Blake Butler http://htmlgiant.com/snippet/15756/comment-page-1/#comment-117698 Blake Butler Tue, 29 Sep 2009 23:57:00 +0000 http://htmlgiant.com/?p=15756#comment-117698 I second that emotion I second that emotion

]]> By: Jack Boettcher http://htmlgiant.com/snippet/15756/comment-page-1/#comment-29778 Jack Boettcher Tue, 29 Sep 2009 23:46:32 +0000 http://htmlgiant.com/?p=15756#comment-29778 Isn't a sand mutant just what happens to a normal person after the cataclysmic combo of climate change drought and long-term industrial pollution in a populated area? Hasn't George Saunders written about mutants (not sand, but still) in a way that would probably be okay with Frederick Barthelme? Also, NO. 40: 39 rules is too many rules for fiction-writers, or any writers. I say this even as I could probably keep a few of his in mind when I'm getting carried away trying to ignore the idea of there being rules. And I realize that these 39 rules really just make up Barthelme's aesthetic viewpoint, but he's the one calling it a primer (primers generally being intended for the non-participant or person with new interest). I think I would like to have seen this list revised or annotated by Donald Barthelme. Isn’t a sand mutant just what happens to a normal person after the cataclysmic combo of climate change drought and long-term industrial pollution in a populated area? Hasn’t George Saunders written about mutants (not sand, but still) in a way that would probably be okay with Frederick Barthelme?

Also, NO. 40: 39 rules is too many rules for fiction-writers, or any writers. I say this even as I could probably keep a few of his in mind when I’m getting carried away trying to ignore the idea of there being rules. And I realize that these 39 rules really just make up Barthelme’s aesthetic viewpoint, but he’s the one calling it a primer (primers generally being intended for the non-participant or person with new interest).

I think I would like to have seen this list revised or annotated by Donald Barthelme.

]]> By: Jack Boettcher http://htmlgiant.com/snippet/15756/comment-page-1/#comment-117697 Jack Boettcher Tue, 29 Sep 2009 23:46:00 +0000 http://htmlgiant.com/?p=15756#comment-117697 Isn't a sand mutant just what happens to a normal person after the cataclysmic combo of climate change drought and long-term industrial pollution in a populated area? Hasn't George Saunders written about mutants (not sand, but still) in a way that would probably be okay with Frederick Barthelme? Also, NO. 40: 39 rules is too many rules for fiction-writers, or any writers. I say this even as I could probably keep a few of his in mind when I'm getting carried away trying to ignore the idea of there being rules. And I realize that these 39 rules really just make up Barthelme's aesthetic viewpoint, but he's the one calling it a primer (primers generally being intended for the non-participant or person with new interest). I think I would like to have seen this list revised or annotated by Donald Barthelme. Isn’t a sand mutant just what happens to a normal person after the cataclysmic combo of climate change drought and long-term industrial pollution in a populated area? Hasn’t George Saunders written about mutants (not sand, but still) in a way that would probably be okay with Frederick Barthelme?

Also, NO. 40: 39 rules is too many rules for fiction-writers, or any writers. I say this even as I could probably keep a few of his in mind when I’m getting carried away trying to ignore the idea of there being rules. And I realize that these 39 rules really just make up Barthelme’s aesthetic viewpoint, but he’s the one calling it a primer (primers generally being intended for the non-participant or person with new interest).

I think I would like to have seen this list revised or annotated by Donald Barthelme.

]]> By: Sam Pink http://htmlgiant.com/snippet/15756/comment-page-1/#comment-29732 Sam Pink Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:24:46 +0000 http://htmlgiant.com/?p=15756#comment-29732 i think that, provided i get a good plot and characterization of the sand mutant, that i would care about the sand mutant, especially if he also didn't like his job, or maybe had a rough romantic relationship with someone, maybe even another sand mutant. i think that, provided i get a good plot and characterization of the sand mutant, that i would care about the sand mutant, especially if he also didn’t like his job, or maybe had a rough romantic relationship with someone, maybe even another sand mutant.

]]> By: Sam Pink http://htmlgiant.com/snippet/15756/comment-page-1/#comment-117696 Sam Pink Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:24:00 +0000 http://htmlgiant.com/?p=15756#comment-117696 i think that, provided i get a good plot and characterization of the sand mutant, that i would care about the sand mutant, especially if he also didn't like his job, or maybe had a rough romantic relationship with someone, maybe even another sand mutant. i think that, provided i get a good plot and characterization of the sand mutant, that i would care about the sand mutant, especially if he also didn’t like his job, or maybe had a rough romantic relationship with someone, maybe even another sand mutant.

]]> By: Nathan Tyree http://htmlgiant.com/snippet/15756/comment-page-1/#comment-29723 Nathan Tyree Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:56:21 +0000 http://htmlgiant.com/?p=15756#comment-29723 I might be able to care about sand mutants. Once I cared about a very old man with enormous wings I might be able to care about sand mutants. Once I cared about a very old man with enormous wings

]]> By: Nathan Tyree http://htmlgiant.com/snippet/15756/comment-page-1/#comment-117695 Nathan Tyree Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:56:00 +0000 http://htmlgiant.com/?p=15756#comment-117695 I might be able to care about sand mutants. Once I cared about a very old man with enormous wings I might be able to care about sand mutants. Once I cared about a very old man with enormous wings

]]> By: Richard http://htmlgiant.com/snippet/15756/comment-page-1/#comment-29714 Richard Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:22:44 +0000 http://htmlgiant.com/?p=15756#comment-29714 or kill yourself or kill yourself

]]> By: Richard http://htmlgiant.com/snippet/15756/comment-page-1/#comment-117694 Richard Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:22:00 +0000 http://htmlgiant.com/?p=15756#comment-117694 or kill yourself or kill yourself

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