outer space
08-22-2011, 06:48 AM
http://www.salon.com/april97/didion970407.html
I mean this was written in 1997 and I'm like 99 percent sure this guy is toiling in mediocrity but what is this??
Don't get me wrong I'm not homophobic, really I'm not, but this article is really just awful. Am I wrong in thinking that his opinions about her are nowhere near being true. I really don't think she was the "oversexed" princess or the "diva" that he makes her out to be. I don't even think he understands why she is so admired.
I don't know her in real life, but I'm pretty sure I don't read Joan Didion because I'm a repressed homosexual and Joan Didion is the antithesis of the repressed homosexual. I mean she totally comes across as fragile, insecure and sad in almost everything she writes (but also amazingly brilliantly and admirably)
How much of a moron does this guy have to be, I mean what does her being inarticulate in her old age have anything to do with how she's only a "literary diva" trying to contort herself into some kind of deluded version of herself. It boggles the mind. I mean is this guy confusing her literary characters in her fiction novels from reality? It's just dumb.
Her blindingly brilliant non-fiction is what sets her apart really, and if you read her essays you absolutely do not get the sense of her being some kind of imposter only playing the "diva".
I'm just ranting by now, but seriously, how is this in salon.com. This is garbage. I mean Bill Mayes is probably just some sad, aging hippie who feels thtat Joan didion is making the entire 'culture' he dedicated his life for seem like a repulsive sham.
I don't really care if "effete" men read Joan Didion, I just like reading about how messed up the 60's was from a very sober and, yes, grim perspective, because lets face it, it probably was ****ty in more ways than people assume.
All you really have to do is read the last line. It quite amazing really, this guy is just the worst.
Just terrible.
I mean this was written in 1997 and I'm like 99 percent sure this guy is toiling in mediocrity but what is this??
Don't get me wrong I'm not homophobic, really I'm not, but this article is really just awful. Am I wrong in thinking that his opinions about her are nowhere near being true. I really don't think she was the "oversexed" princess or the "diva" that he makes her out to be. I don't even think he understands why she is so admired.
I don't know her in real life, but I'm pretty sure I don't read Joan Didion because I'm a repressed homosexual and Joan Didion is the antithesis of the repressed homosexual. I mean she totally comes across as fragile, insecure and sad in almost everything she writes (but also amazingly brilliantly and admirably)
How much of a moron does this guy have to be, I mean what does her being inarticulate in her old age have anything to do with how she's only a "literary diva" trying to contort herself into some kind of deluded version of herself. It boggles the mind. I mean is this guy confusing her literary characters in her fiction novels from reality? It's just dumb.
Her blindingly brilliant non-fiction is what sets her apart really, and if you read her essays you absolutely do not get the sense of her being some kind of imposter only playing the "diva".
I'm just ranting by now, but seriously, how is this in salon.com. This is garbage. I mean Bill Mayes is probably just some sad, aging hippie who feels thtat Joan didion is making the entire 'culture' he dedicated his life for seem like a repulsive sham.
I don't really care if "effete" men read Joan Didion, I just like reading about how messed up the 60's was from a very sober and, yes, grim perspective, because lets face it, it probably was ****ty in more ways than people assume.
All you really have to do is read the last line. It quite amazing really, this guy is just the worst.
Just terrible.