March 09, 2006

At Last My English Major Is Paying Off

We Llamas are the #2 Google hit for effin linguistic.

And speaking of such things, Jonah reprints part of an article Terry Teachout wrote about Norman Mailer. A choice cut:

Mailer has been writing badly for so long that it is easy to forget that a great many intelligent people once took him almost as seriously as he took himself....

The trouble with Mailer was that he was drunk on ideas, a deadly tipple for woolly-minded pseudo-intellectuals. Sensing instinctively that liberalism had run its course, he made the mistake of assuming that radicalism was the only way out, and complicated matters still further by opting for a romantic radicalism rooted in sexual mysticism. As a result, his style grew bloated and slack, especially on the increasingly frequent occasions when he grappled with imperfectly digested philosophical concepts.

'Effin right, mate.

Posted by Robert at March 9, 2006 02:23 PM | TrackBack
Comments

The trouble with Mailer was that he was drunk on ideas

Not a problem for a tee totaler like Jonah.

Posted by: LB buddy at March 9, 2006 02:37 PM

Mailer is just another Hemingway imitator. He was always a hack and always will be.

Posted by: The Colossus at March 9, 2006 06:04 PM