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Date Posted: 13:01:55 09/01/04 Wed
Author: Quine's spittal
Author Host/IP: 210.246.12.40
Subject: Re: More reasons why LitKicks, Inc. and Asher suck
In reply to: dane 's message, "More reasons why LitKicks, Inc. and Asher suck" on 17:39:07 08/22/04 Sun

Above the average cafe hack? I think not. Sub cafe hack & sub-human.



>
>
>Imagine this (and this "profile"--which is not me--
>fits quite a few litkickers or former litkickers, male
>and female):
>
>you are a writer--not the greatest, not the worst,
>above the average cafe hack, perhaps. Your writing is
>direct, honest, unsentimental--occasionally graphic
>and erotic, and violent. YOu write about death.
>absurdity. prisons. war. capitalism. sex. whores.
>even wax a bit philosophical now and then.... You try
>to avoid cliches. Maybe you have even been published
>or praised by academics or in newspapers or online.
>
>you post to some e-zines and websites, and one day
>discover litkicks. checking it out, you like a few
>posted pieces but see much juvenile angst and fluff.
>you post some. a few people read u, hardly anyone
>responds. u see some clown or bimbo posting and her
>writing is about that of a high school junior's diary.
> and yet she is a "regular". and people actually
>praise her, though her (or his) writing is really just
>useless fluff
>
>one day you write some flames about the garbage u
>read. arguments ensue, anger grows, insults and
>profanity increases. after some time u are suddenly
>"bounced"--without reason or warning-- and your
>writing vanishes. even some pieces you had not saved.
>gone. yet the regulars that had said things as
>horrible or worse than you, and were really quite
>awful writers, remain
>
>that is litkicks for many people.

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