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"When a reporter recently challenged Liu to answer the middle-school questions about the “meaning” and the “central themes” of his story, he didn’t get a single
by pelario 7y ago
"When a reporter recently challenged Liu to answer the middle-school questions about the “meaning” and the “central themes” of his story, he didn’t get a single one right. “I’m a writer,” he told me, with a shrug. “I don’t begin with some conceit in mind. I’m just trying to tell a good story.”"
Does anybody have a link or know more about this ?
- King-Aaron 7y agoMy mother is a semi-professional artist, and I've overheard a similar thing at one of her exhibitions once. Some journalists (or some such) were standing in front of one of her pieces, discussing the deeper meaning behind the work and what the artist must have been trying to express at the time. My Mum just laughed and said "the only thing behind this piece was three bottles of wine"
- ngcc_hk 7y agoThe author is dead. But what is written may reflect something the original author may not consciously aware or want to. The red chamber is a good chinese example.
- r3bl 7y agoNot about Liu, but written by another frustrated writer that couldn't answer middle-school questions about her own poems: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/standardized-tests-are-so-bad-i-cant-answer-these_b_586d5517e4b0c3539e80c341 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/standardized-tests-are-so-bad...
- ptah 7y agoIt reminds me of nassim taleb's "lecturing birds how to fly"