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I read the whole thing, and I still don't get why anyone is interested. Maeve Brennan, her columns, her life — all of it seems trivial in an especially dull wa
by JasonFruit 8y ago
I read the whole thing, and I still don't get why anyone is interested. Maeve Brennan, her columns, her life — all of it seems trivial in an especially dull way. Maybe the writer of this piece was unable to convey her interest in as artistic a way as they wished to, and should have told the simple facts instead of trying to construct atmosphere.
- pjc50 8y agoThe atmosphere is the thing here, along with the character sketch of a person. It's the age-old process of trying to look inside someone's head to feel as they feel. From the opening few paragraphs I suspect she was one of those people with intense in-person charisma, or as we call it round here, "reality distortion field".
- JasonFruit 8y agoBut there's no atmosphere either, just the appearance that an attempt was made to convey it. I'm left baffled over Brennan's significance.