Is everyone's winter break over already?
Sort of responding to Eunice's prompt on the appreciation of art in general-- last night I was most indescribably annoyed by a lofty, flowery, most unnecessary afterword to a Korean novel I had just read, and wondered the same thing: that I probably would have enjoyed the book better if the critic hadn't killed it with stretched analyses and a completely random reference to Eliot that was ever-so-clunky within its exclusively Korean context.

So, Eunice, this was what it made me think of:

"A fine writer will always make you feel that [some compliment to Hemingway]," Mrs. Phelps said. "And don't worry about the bits you can't understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music."

- Roald Dahl, Matilda

posted by Tae-Yeoun Keum   [5:51 PM]

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