Charles Baxter Quotes

The Techno-political Thriller And The Romance Novel Serve As Antidotes To The Imagination Rather Than Stimulants To It. For This Reason They Make For Ideal Reading In Airports And Airplanes. They Effectively Shut Down The Imagination By Doing All Its Work For It. They Leave The Spirit Or The Soul - And Ambiguity, For That Matter - Out Of The Equation. By Shutting Down The Imagination, Genre Novels Perform A Useful Service To The Anxious Air Traveler By Reducing His Or Her Ability To Speculate. For The Most Part, People On Airplanes, And Here I Include Myself, Would Rather Not Use Their Speculative Imaginations At All; One Consequence Of This Situation Is That Great Poetry Is Virtually Unreadable During Turbulence, When The Snack Cart Has Been Put Away And The Seat Belts Fastened. Enough Anxiety Is Associated With Air Travel Without Rainer Maria Rilke's Sonnets To Orpheus Making It Worse.

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