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Dec. 16th, 2008 09:35 pmRobert Standish on antiquated British thriller author E. Phillips Oppenheim, quoted by Colin Wilson in Snobbery With Violence:
There was in him, as there has been in almost every man or woman who has found a place in tens of millions of human hearts, a wide streak of mediocrity.
...Or, as we post-millennial types like to call it, the American Idol Principle.
Seriously, though, it's kind of interesting to ponder where the would-be auteur goes from there; related to the age-old question of whose critical opinion really matters.
Do you (as did most of the authors surveyed by Watson) proudly revel in the approbation of the good honest yeoman heart? Do you take it as a challenge and try earnestly to raise its consciousness? Or do you just give up on mass appeal altogether and revel in being above it all?
There was in him, as there has been in almost every man or woman who has found a place in tens of millions of human hearts, a wide streak of mediocrity.
...Or, as we post-millennial types like to call it, the American Idol Principle.
Seriously, though, it's kind of interesting to ponder where the would-be auteur goes from there; related to the age-old question of whose critical opinion really matters.
Do you (as did most of the authors surveyed by Watson) proudly revel in the approbation of the good honest yeoman heart? Do you take it as a challenge and try earnestly to raise its consciousness? Or do you just give up on mass appeal altogether and revel in being above it all?
