[ SECRET POST #2270 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2270 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

He was the genius of the century, but it was the 20thC before everyone leapt on the post modern fantasy deconstruction bandwagon.

[(Anonymous)]

I think you have some very strange ideas about a lot of things. I don't think that being part of the "post-modern fantasy deconstruction bandwagon" would make someone the genius of the 20th century, if for no other reason than fantasy is only part of literature as a whole. I don't think that bandwagon is as populated (or, indeed, as post-modern) as you seem to think it is, or that it has the stature you seem to think it has. I don't think Terry Pratchett is that post-modern or that much of a deconstructionist, at least not after his first five or six books; he's much more interested in writing light humor and in observing the foibles of humanity than in addressing the formal structure and the tropes of fantasy writing. And I don't think, even if he was part of that bandwagon, he could really be called the pre-eminent figure within it.

It's a very odd view of the world you have.

[(Anonymous)]

Because your "view of the world" is of course the normal and right one, and an opinion on Terry Pratchett's works is the touchstone for judging someone's "view of the world". Yeah, sure.

Trashing someone so comprehensively based on a view of one author is spectacularly douchey, jsyk.

[(Anonymous)]

w/e. Maybe "view of the world" was too comprehensive a term for what I meant. But if you disagree with me, please tell me why, I welcome your input (not being sarcastic either).

[(Anonymous)]

DA

While I don't disagree with you, you do come off very 'My way is the only right way!' in your previous comment, and I suspect that's what the person is referring to.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, my way is the only right way.

Ahem. Joking. More seriously: I probably did come off like a douchebag, and I probably should have taken more time to write that post so I didn't. It was a quick, off-the-cuff thing, so my tone was probably more intense than I intended it to be.

That said, I do kind of think I'm right? I mean, either there is a bandwagon of post-modern fantasy deconstruction that has glommed on to Terry Pratchett's style, and Pratchett would be a genius except for that, or there isn't. I don't think there is. If you disagree, I'd really like to hear why. Convince me. But I don't think it's a question of taste, really, or anything like that.

[dreemyweird]

Ugh no, I didn't mean genres and other things. I meant "genius" in a purely technical sense. As in "a person with a brilliant writing technique".

[(Anonymous)]

Are you actually implying that parodies of fantasy tropes weren't a thing until Terry Pratchett came along? Because Piers Anthony and Robert Aspirin might voice a few objections to that. Just saying.