Current Events > Someone just told me horror is bad because it can never be high art.

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OctilIery
09/22/19 4:29:42 AM
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And they expect to be taken seriously after that, lol
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berlyman101
09/22/19 4:30:41 AM
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literal Edward Allen Poe is considered by many to be the best writer ever from America

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MabusIncarnate
09/22/19 4:31:10 AM
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Did you tell them to shut the fuck up? That's my first instinct.

Imagine discrediting an entire genre like that.

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OctilIery
09/22/19 4:32:16 AM
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berlyman101 posted...
literal Edward Allen Poe is considered by many to be the best writer ever from America

Right? And Shirly Jackson, and a number of others. Even Dickens did some horror IIRC.

Plus if you're going to use such a pretentious term as "high art" you are going to have a hard time being taken seriously regardless.
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R1masher
09/22/19 4:33:10 AM
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Yeah Poe was high when he arted
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OctilIery
09/22/19 4:33:31 AM
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MabusIncarnate posted...
Did you tell them to shut the fuck up? That's my first instinct.

Imagine discrediting an entire genre like that.

I mean, the same guy also said American Gods has better characters and story than Coraline, but Coraline is better written so it's a better book.

Like, no, if it has better characters and better story, it's better written.
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OctilIery
09/22/19 4:35:04 AM
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R1masher posted...
Yeah Poe was high when he arted

IIRC Poe was actually pretty drug free
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AlisLandale
09/22/19 4:36:02 AM
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How does this person define high art?
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Questionmarktarius
09/22/19 4:38:06 AM
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berlyman101 posted...
literal Edward Allen Poe is considered by many to be the best writer ever from America

Especially so when James Earl Jones reads it.

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MabusIncarnate
09/22/19 4:39:23 AM
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Poe was a pretty big alcoholic though, was fond of absinthe and mixed it with other liquor. I don't recall any opium or drug abuse.

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OctilIery
09/22/19 4:44:09 AM
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MabusIncarnate posted...
Poe was a pretty big alcoholic though, was fond of absinthe and mixed it with other liquor. I don't recall any opium or drug abuse.

That's actually a myth. While Poe drank a lot at times, including excessively, he never had a history of struggling with it, and would abstain for long periods. He had some particularly nasty rivals who painted him to be a drunk after his death. IIRC, he also had an obituary that said something along the lines of "Poe's loss will be mourned by his readers and nobody else", but that may have been another author.
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spikethedevil
09/22/19 5:06:47 AM
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Yea it was another author according to wki.
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R1masher
09/22/19 5:08:42 AM
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You guys and your wikis...
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spikethedevil
09/22/19 5:09:46 AM
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Just read through pretty much all of Poes. Was very interesting.
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OctilIery
09/22/19 5:11:32 AM
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spikethedevil posted...
Yea it was another author according to wki.

Who? Lovecraft?
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spikethedevil
09/22/19 5:14:54 AM
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Rufus Wilmot Griswold
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OctilIery
09/22/19 5:15:51 AM
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spikethedevil posted...
Rufus Wilmot Griswold

Oh I thought you meant that was said about another author.
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spikethedevil
09/22/19 5:16:47 AM
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Nah was confirming the obit was done by a salty rival author.
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Steffenfield
09/22/19 5:41:21 AM
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Has anyone here seen the movie High Art with Radha Mitchell and Ally Sheedy?

Or am I the only old person in this forum?

I loved that film. <3
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Questionmarktarius
09/22/19 5:45:53 AM
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Steffenfield posted...
Or am I the only old person in this forum?

I've seen Stan Brakhage's porno.
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pegusus123456
09/22/19 5:48:10 AM
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Fans of Edgar Allen Poe always praise the fuck out of him, but I think he's pretty bad. I guess Poe folk don't spect much.
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viewmaster_pi
09/22/19 6:15:47 AM
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SubtletyRefuge posted...
Well yeah, people who generalize and dismiss things are not uncommon. For example, a lot of people dismiss animation just because of the country it was made in.
anime sucks

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