Thanks, Everybody
I've enjoyed reading all your comments, and you can see my response to the "Questions" for me in a comment added to that post.
Peter S.
Peter S.
posted by Anonymous at 7:35 AM
Thursday, April 06, 2006
About Me
- Name: Andy Duncan
- Location: Frostburg, Maryland, United States
I'm a professor of English at Frostburg State University in the western Maryland mountains; a fiction writer whose honors include a Nebula Award, a Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award and three World Fantasy Awards; a journalist since age 17; and a lifelong collector of Forteana.
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3 Comments:
Here's what Peter posted to our "Mr. Aickman's Air Rifle" thread:
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First of all, I'm pleased that many of you liked this story... but I guess "Lapland" didn't do so well!
Yers, the woman is Virginia Woolf. All the men are dead from the beginning, only they don't know it yet. So it doesn't matter what they eat --- but two years ago, I was in a hospital just like this for the same reasons, and every afternoon, out came the litlle petits-fours, yum yum.
The story -- as I see it -- is about shame. Traynor is the only one of them who acknowledges his shame, so he is the best of them, the most advanced.
Peter Straub
I am chuckling to myself right now. I wish I had a pocket author reference to tell me what every author actually intended. I would wave it in the faces of over-analyzing English teachers everywhere. I guess when some writers compose stories, they are open to the fact that readers may interpret in a way they didnt intend. I would not be that patient. Straub's explanation is so simple, but basically answerred all of my questions. Hooray!!
While I don't disagree with anything Peter said, Stacey, I must point out, as an author myself, that I often don't know what's going on in my stories, and I've found that to be true of countless authors! So your Andy Duncan pocket author reference wouldn't be much good, I'm afraid. Even great writers are not necessarily great readers of their own work. Faulkner, when asked what he meant or intended in his own fiction, frequently lied. And the book, if it's any good, will long outlive the author, and his opinions of it will become increasingly irrelevant with time.
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