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>In a meeting at the Loft Literary Center, Minneapolis, in 2008, when asked what differs good authors from bad authors, he replied, "Time and space, the colors of the seasons, the movements of muscles and minds, all these are for writers of genius (as far as we can guess and I trust we guess right) not traditional notions which may be borrowed from the circulating library of public truths but a series of unique surprises which master artists have learned to express in their own unique way. To minor authors is left the ornamentation of the commonplace: these do not bother about any reinventing of the world; they merely try to squeeze the best they can out of a given order of things, out of traditional patterns of fiction. The various combinations these minor authors are able to produce within these set limits may be quite amusing in a mild ephemeral way because minor readers like to recognize their own ideas in a pleasing disguise. But the real writer, the fellow who sends planets spinning and models a man asleep and eagerly tampers with the sleeper’s rib, that kind of author has no given values at his disposal: he must create them himself."
What did he mean by this?
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>>8524167
Just a bunch of inane blather.
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Sounds similar to what Roderick talks about in his first televised lecture about Socrates. Paraphrasing, but he speaks of the rise of Socrates to be partly a product of time. The ancient Greeks of Homer's era never questioned the meaning of courage as it was self evident. The genius of Socrates could only be present in a time when the meaning of all Athenian society was being questioned in the wake of a misguided war and tyrannical overtake of the state. Everything was under revision so it set the stage for revolutionary figures.
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>>8524167
Its sad people here actually believe Green said this
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>>8524199
Yea, the transition of Homers pre classical Greece, with its economic crisises, widespread famine, and incessant and aimless warfare, to classical Athens and the foundations of what would become natural philosophy, later modern science, was a total step down.
Socrates was a fraud looking for the nature of justice and what defined the perfect state. We were robbed of a present where priesthoods and oracles still determine the ways of kings and their kingdoms.
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>>8524167
He only pretends to be retarded.
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>>8524219
Somehow I knew he didn't, but I have no idea where its from
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>>8524167
it's Nabokov
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>>8524167
>posts something he claims was said by an author whose critique of literature /lit/ largely disagrees with
>o wait haha ruse it was actually said by a different author whose critique of literature /lit/ largely disagrees with
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There's no way this is Green. For him to say this, out loud, publicly, would be for him to inadvertently admit to being a mediocre writer of minimal accomplishment. Also I highly doubt he would talk in such a poetical way. Nabokov seems more likely.
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>>8524167
I wish I could come up with shit like this on the fly in interviews.
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>>8526234
It's Nabokov. It's always Nabokov.
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