Comments on: Presque vu XIII http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/presque-vu-xiii-2/ Reflections of a working writer and reader Sat, 19 May 2012 08:23:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Nils http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/presque-vu-xiii-2/comment-page-1/#comment-17334 Nils Sat, 16 Dec 2006 12:49:09 +0000 http://www.johnbakersblog.co.uk/presque-vu-xiii-2/#comment-17334 Jeffrey Archer, I had quite forgotten about him. 12 million pounds, eh? Those sure are figures to compete with the hippest and trendiest TV and film personalities. While we always cry that literature never gets the financial and artistic benefits as other, more commercial forms of entertainment, this once again proves it does... once it has become just that: bland entertainment and ego worshipping. Sad. As for the questionnaire, I hate doing those: they're hard and never nuanced and obviously I do know their outcome in advance. I was happy to see, though, that I rank with Nelson Mandela and the Dalai Lama. Sounds like interesting company, wouldn't you say? <strong>jb says</strong>: Hi Nils, yes, take the meaning away and anything that might make an audience think and you've got a product that could make millions. And I ended up in the same quarter as you after the questionnaire. Not many of us over here, these days, but, as you say, the company is definitely interesting. The problem with those kind of questionnaires is that they don't make it possible for you to slip off the graph altogether. Jeffrey Archer, I had quite forgotten about him. 12 million pounds, eh? Those sure are figures to compete with the hippest and trendiest TV and film personalities. While we always cry that literature never gets the financial and artistic benefits as other, more commercial forms of entertainment, this once again proves it does… once it has become just that: bland entertainment and ego worshipping. Sad.

As for the questionnaire, I hate doing those: they’re hard and never nuanced and obviously I do know their outcome in advance. I was happy to see, though, that I rank with Nelson Mandela and the Dalai Lama. Sounds like interesting company, wouldn’t you say?

jb says: Hi Nils, yes, take the meaning away and anything that might make an audience think and you’ve got a product that could make millions.

And I ended up in the same quarter as you after the questionnaire. Not many of us over here, these days, but, as you say, the company is definitely interesting.

The problem with those kind of questionnaires is that they don’t make it possible for you to slip off the graph altogether.

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