"What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers" - Logan Pearsall Smith
Smith is saying that what makes an author truly great is one who can incorporate things into their literature without blatantly saying it. Anyone can simply transfer their thoughts from their mind onto paper verbatim, but only the best of the best can make their points through subtleties. Any great piece of literature has some sort of underlying meaning behind the literal one.
Agreed. Read any Robert A. Heinlein?
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ReplyDeleteShame. He is a prime example of the kind of subtlety you are talking about. Many people can't decide if he is a fascist, libertarian, socialist, or capitalist, since he often descrives all of these systems as utopias in his books, leaving it up to the reader to figure out which ones he really supports.
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