lunes, enero 30, 2006
What people miss...
Pues sí, hay una cierta entrada en cierto blog que desató una oleada de comentarios, varios inteligentes, otros injustificadamente agresivos... Y mi comentario es el siguiente:
from "The Visitors" de Julian Barnes
Before he got his own writing credit Franklin had become expert at presenting the ideas of others as plausibly as possible. But never had he felt such apprehension at a script; never had a director imposed such conditions; never had his fee been so bizarre. When first agreeing to the task he had persuaded himself that he could surely find a way of tipping off his audience that he was acting under duress. He would think up some ploy like that of the false Minoan inscriptions; or he would make his lecture so exaggerated, pretend such enthusiasm for the cause thrust upon him, that nobody could possibly miss the irony. No, that wouldn't work. 'Irony,' an ancient TV producer had once confided to him, 'may be defined as what people miss.' And the passengers certainly wouldn't be on the lookout for it in their present circumstances...
Tal vez el problema es la falta de referente, ya que el post arriba aludido no hacía sino responder a otro previo, que desgraciadamente ya fue reciclado a "environmentally friendly electrons" (y digo desgraciadamente por ser un documento histórico y no por lo que contenía). Quien se lo perdió, se lo perdió.
Mando un abrazo a la autora del difunto post (QEPD) porque nunca se indignó ni hizo comentarios hirientes, sino que supo ser autocrítica. Ojalá que todos (incluyéndome) lo sepamos ser cuando sea pertinente. Un error cualquiera lo comete, pero no cualquiera lo reconoce.
Pues sí, hay una cierta entrada en cierto blog que desató una oleada de comentarios, varios inteligentes, otros injustificadamente agresivos... Y mi comentario es el siguiente:
from "The Visitors" de Julian Barnes
Before he got his own writing credit Franklin had become expert at presenting the ideas of others as plausibly as possible. But never had he felt such apprehension at a script; never had a director imposed such conditions; never had his fee been so bizarre. When first agreeing to the task he had persuaded himself that he could surely find a way of tipping off his audience that he was acting under duress. He would think up some ploy like that of the false Minoan inscriptions; or he would make his lecture so exaggerated, pretend such enthusiasm for the cause thrust upon him, that nobody could possibly miss the irony. No, that wouldn't work. 'Irony,' an ancient TV producer had once confided to him, 'may be defined as what people miss.' And the passengers certainly wouldn't be on the lookout for it in their present circumstances...
Tal vez el problema es la falta de referente, ya que el post arriba aludido no hacía sino responder a otro previo, que desgraciadamente ya fue reciclado a "environmentally friendly electrons" (y digo desgraciadamente por ser un documento histórico y no por lo que contenía). Quien se lo perdió, se lo perdió.
Mando un abrazo a la autora del difunto post (QEPD) porque nunca se indignó ni hizo comentarios hirientes, sino que supo ser autocrítica. Ojalá que todos (incluyéndome) lo sepamos ser cuando sea pertinente. Un error cualquiera lo comete, pero no cualquiera lo reconoce.
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