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Aug. 2nd, 2006 10:18 amI wish somebody (namely John Crowley) would correct my typo of "accolate" for "accolade" in my unintentionally anonymous post on his blog.
And regarding coincidence: What would we think of a short story with a plot like this: A skeptical ex-Catholic writer struggles for twenty years to finish a four-volume serio-comic novel that encompasses some of the toughest erotic and metaphysical issues of the twentieth century. He dies on April 15, 1942, his final volume still in uncompleted tatters. Eight and one half months later, on December 1, 1942, a baby is born who grows up to be a skeptical ex-Catholic writer who spends twenty years of his life writing a four-volume serio-comic novel that encompasses some of the toughest erotic and metaphysical issues of the twentieth century.
I think we would feel like we've read this parallel-heavy plot once or twice too often. It would be just about as silly a plot device as making the latter novelist have the same name as a film director and a theologian, guaranteeing that his own film scripts and sometimes his book titles would be confused with those of the other two.
And regarding coincidence: What would we think of a short story with a plot like this: A skeptical ex-Catholic writer struggles for twenty years to finish a four-volume serio-comic novel that encompasses some of the toughest erotic and metaphysical issues of the twentieth century. He dies on April 15, 1942, his final volume still in uncompleted tatters. Eight and one half months later, on December 1, 1942, a baby is born who grows up to be a skeptical ex-Catholic writer who spends twenty years of his life writing a four-volume serio-comic novel that encompasses some of the toughest erotic and metaphysical issues of the twentieth century.
I think we would feel like we've read this parallel-heavy plot once or twice too often. It would be just about as silly a plot device as making the latter novelist have the same name as a film director and a theologian, guaranteeing that his own film scripts and sometimes his book titles would be confused with those of the other two.
