Post by rorschalk on Mar 31, 2023 17:20:28 GMT
Dear Mr. VC, this exchange between myself and rockefeller may explain my critique even better than I can alone do it. Anyhow. I hope this helps.
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FROM : [REDACTED] rockefeller
10:12 AM (24 minutes ago)
TO: RORSCHALK
Sure, but can't promise more than about 1 every week or 2. G was on vacation last time he went AWOL.
Also, thoughtful critique of Parable, except imo, you misread the genre. It's not really a short story, where raising the stakes makes sense. However "true", it's a memoir, and read to me as such. Powerful in a toned down, easy-to-believe, slice of life sort of way. It's as good as I've ever seen, or, in my experience, am ever likely to, on the Floor.
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FROM: Theodore Q. Rorschalk <tqrstories@gmail.com>
10:55 AM (0 minutes ago)
TO: [REDACTED] rockefeller
My response to 'misreading genre' is that regardless of genre, the narrative has to pack more of a punch to be more cathartic if it wants to touch the monkey. Granted it is, as you say, a perfectly lovely memoir. What this discussion is bringing to light is, I think, the way real life can be a fantastic template upon which to mount our capital ventures, but then the VC's job is to add that bit of game changing art that makes the build up to the climax and the climax itself all the more hair raising, if you get what I'm saying. That's where the spirit of my critique was coming from. Like I said, as is, it's a great memoir, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's going to be a capital gain because, in this instance, the stakes were never high enough for it to hit the red line of pleasure and pain that is the benchmark of that particular standard.
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FROM : [REDACTED] rockefeller
10:12 AM (24 minutes ago)
TO: RORSCHALK
Sure, but can't promise more than about 1 every week or 2. G was on vacation last time he went AWOL.
Also, thoughtful critique of Parable, except imo, you misread the genre. It's not really a short story, where raising the stakes makes sense. However "true", it's a memoir, and read to me as such. Powerful in a toned down, easy-to-believe, slice of life sort of way. It's as good as I've ever seen, or, in my experience, am ever likely to, on the Floor.
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FROM: Theodore Q. Rorschalk <tqrstories@gmail.com>
10:55 AM (0 minutes ago)
TO: [REDACTED] rockefeller
My response to 'misreading genre' is that regardless of genre, the narrative has to pack more of a punch to be more cathartic if it wants to touch the monkey. Granted it is, as you say, a perfectly lovely memoir. What this discussion is bringing to light is, I think, the way real life can be a fantastic template upon which to mount our capital ventures, but then the VC's job is to add that bit of game changing art that makes the build up to the climax and the climax itself all the more hair raising, if you get what I'm saying. That's where the spirit of my critique was coming from. Like I said, as is, it's a great memoir, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's going to be a capital gain because, in this instance, the stakes were never high enough for it to hit the red line of pleasure and pain that is the benchmark of that particular standard.