🚀 go-pugleaf

Hear!  Hear!  I agree with Crawford's comments on subsidized literary
industry in Canada.  It is necessary to reinforce Canadian identity in the
field.  I just regret that the Council (and other agencies) are so inbred.
This is the opposite side of the coin: while Canadan writer need some
reinforcement because we are one=tenth the population of the US, at the same
time because we are small, there are fewer authors to be on directive
orginizations.

I think literature serves a purpose--even if it doesn't sell well.  Its an
area where more experimentation is allowed (failures can be called
"artistic").  It's sort of the abstract mathematics department, while genre
fiction is applied engineering.  I happen to like and aspire to write good
genre fiction.




--
Alan


alan_barclay@mindlink.bc.ca

"When is a leg of lamb like a poet?"

Answer: "When it's browning."