tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6596790.post1813351620349570164..comments2023-12-23T20:09:27.185+00:00Comments on The Curmudgeon: Burning EveryonePhiliphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18076353733931722397noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6596790.post-88319217426073388072011-12-22T19:59:15.506+00:002011-12-22T19:59:15.506+00:00Thanks again. I certainly didn't feel resigned...Thanks again. I certainly didn't feel resigned while writing it; in fact, a major worry was that the narrative voice would be excessively snide and the protagonist too one-dimensionally unsympathetic, precisely because the whole thing was written in what was essentially a seven-week self-righteous strop.Philiphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18076353733931722397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6596790.post-67300505010262517352011-12-22T13:01:28.356+00:002011-12-22T13:01:28.356+00:00I myself thought "Security" was a fine a...I myself thought "Security" was a fine and unsettling piece of work. I have thought about it a lot since reading it and I found the "dollop of resignation" entirely appropriate, given the subject matter. I felt you were, disturbingly, right on the money, as it were. It is likely my favourite piece of yours so far, or at least it is the one I have most often mentioned to Buck Theoremhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15229297104282779341noreply@blogger.com