tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23471801.post114316345097242634..comments2023-10-21T07:44:20.549-04:00Comments on The Existence Machine: Parable of the Sower, Octavia ButlerRichardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08014014605639738887noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23471801.post-44788311826924954102006-12-10T22:38:00.000-05:002006-12-10T22:38:00.000-05:00That last comment was me. Blogger is messing arou...That last comment was me. Blogger is messing around with my identity!Scrapshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17482867072396893124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23471801.post-13541088263920477192006-12-10T22:18:00.000-05:002006-12-10T22:18:00.000-05:00Butler's very rare short stories, collected in one...Butler's very rare short stories, collected in one volume (<i>Bloodchild and Other Stories</i>, are uniformly excellent; in fact I think they are her best work: severe, unflinching, very hard to take.Scrapshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17482867072396893124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23471801.post-1149515298751534222006-06-05T09:48:00.000-04:002006-06-05T09:48:00.000-04:00Hi, Tony.I suspect that when people use the word d...Hi, Tony.<BR/><BR/>I suspect that when people use the word didactic as a pejorative like this (as I have), they are thinking of lectures. People don't want to be lectured to, least of all when reading fiction. Maybe. However, perhaps "didactic" doesn't need to be thought of in this narrow manner. I forget where I read recently (Sontag?), about all art being didactic--in arguing in favor, at least, of the particular manner, the form the writer has chosen. That certainly leaves open the possibility of other arguments being made in fiction, without it being reduced to a lecture.Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08014014605639738887noreply@blogger.com