La Vie Boheme

WTF?

The more I think about this quote from Phillip Pullman, the more it irks me.

"Fantasy and fiction in general is failing to do what it might be doing," he was reported as saying in The Guardian.

"It has unlimited potential to explore all sorts of metaphysical and moral questions, but it is not doing that.

"You can't leave morality out unless your work is so stupid and trivial, and so worthless that no-one would want to read it anyway."

Okay, first of all, His Dark Materials wasn't good enough to warrant all that pretentiousness. Second of all -- what the fuck? I admit, I have literary aspirations beyond "just" being a genre writer. I believe that Pullman has a point when he says that fantasy has that unlimited potential to explore metaphysical questions. I'm all for that. But that is not the SOLE REASON for writing, or reading, anything.

When my novels start getting published, if I start sounding like Pullman, all of you have permission to find me and smack me.