Posted by DuckDodgers at ool-44c34b46.dyn.optonline.net on January 23, 2004 at 05:28:06:
In Reply to: Uh-huh. posted by Smalls on January 23, 2004 at 03:28:09:
: : Only people in love with the tragic who aspire some sort of artifical gradeur
: Dude, you make it sound like a bad thing.
: One, there is an extent to which since our popular fiction is the only place in which life can work on a level of grandeur, unlike our largely petty empty shamblings toward the grave, we need to experience that tragic grandeur as much as we can in our fiction.
The idea that the tragic **in and of itself** is grandiose, IS a bad thing. If the tragic evolves organically from a story as in say Shakespeare or Tristan and Isolde that's different. If it's a tacked on tradgedy like Quantum Leap or the original ending to Clerks, it doesn't mean automatic grandeur as some unfortunately have a tendency to think. You seem to equate the two, tradgedy = grandeur, sort of a Byronic view that to me ,nothing personal now, always strikes me as a bit pretentious.