Elvish, Schmelvish

by Mary Jackson (November 2010)

J. R. R. Tolkien

Beckett leaves me cold. People don’t sit around in piles of mud or in dustbins (unless they’re Top Cat), so why make them? Beckett is boring, Tolkien is boring and nearly all science fiction is boring (Brave New World, The Time Machine and Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy are not science fiction). So is Stockhausen – music should have something resembling a tune. And artists should be able to draw or paint or sculpt.

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