Possibly. Or possibly it's his way of indicating the many interpretations offered by the text, and its proud refusal to endorse any of them. I haven't read the story in question, so can't really comment on your suggestion that he's Missing The Point ... though from what you say it sounds reasonable. But the fact that a wilfully weird book confuses people just means it's doing its job, not that those mainstream readers are so stoopid haha.
Mainly, I agree with what veggiesu says: if an SF reviewer had suggested that some of the stories in the collection didn't hang together, we wouldn't be having this discussion. Because the reviewer would have been treated with respect, even if he'd been reviewing for some unimportant blog. Knight is being made fun of and his criticisms dismissed because he's Not In Dialogue With The Genre. And that's just silly.
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Date: 2005-08-13 03:24 pm (UTC)Possibly. Or possibly it's his way of indicating the many interpretations offered by the text, and its proud refusal to endorse any of them. I haven't read the story in question, so can't really comment on your suggestion that he's Missing The Point ... though from what you say it sounds reasonable. But the fact that a wilfully weird book confuses people just means it's doing its job, not that those mainstream readers are so stoopid haha.
Mainly, I agree with what