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Cabinet of Curiosities - April 9th, 2007

About April 9th, 2007

Literary snobs: my first sighting 02:21 pm
My friend (who is getting a Masters in library science, I would like to point out) had an interesting rant on his blog about, among other things, English majors and genre fiction versus “lit fic”, from which I quote most gleefully:

“Contrast people having weighty moral issues and physical travails while fishing with people having weighty moral issues and physical travails on spaceships. You should be keeping a simple fact in mind here, which is that fishing, to be perfectly honest, is REALLY FUCKING BORING, and that flying around in spaceships fighting aliens is REALLY COOL.”

It is funny and it reminded me that I myself have not ranted about this subject (in writing, anyway).
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