Yeah, well, to me it sounded a little more like, "My ego is so large, you'd need a crane and a wrecking ball to get it out of my lovely New Orleans home, which you can find at this address, and I certainly don't need any of your help, you nattering nabobs of negativity, because my prose, like my hero, is deathless. Deathless, you hear me!? By the way, whoareyou?"
And yeah, I guess by comparison, I'd really rather hear, "Oh that! I just knock those out." Although I guess I also sorta like to hear, "It's a knack, I guess!"
Come to think of it, I've had a couple of conversations like this with talented artists lately. Both of them have basically dismissed the products of their talent casually to me, saying they didn't have to work at it, and it didn't satisfy them the way honing the things they really care about did. It sounds like Houston, too, is coming from that rough area, no doubt pleased that she can find a market for that stuff, and (one hopes) aware that it beats a day job temping, but wanting to be honest and open about where it fits in her Maslovian pyramid.
Those talented friends of mine, by the way, are both guys who are losing their hair, whereas my hair is thick and lustrous.
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Yeah, well, to me it sounded a little more like, "My ego is so large, you'd need a crane and a wrecking ball to get it out of my lovely New Orleans home, which you can find at this address, and I certainly don't need any of your help, you nattering nabobs of negativity, because my prose, like my hero, is deathless. Deathless, you hear me!? By the way, who are you?"
And yeah, I guess by comparison, I'd really rather hear, "Oh that! I just knock those out." Although I guess I also sorta like to hear, "It's a knack, I guess!"
Come to think of it, I've had a couple of conversations like this with talented artists lately. Both of them have basically dismissed the products of their talent casually to me, saying they didn't have to work at it, and it didn't satisfy them the way honing the things they really care about did. It sounds like Houston, too, is coming from that rough area, no doubt pleased that she can find a market for that stuff, and (one hopes) aware that it beats a day job temping, but wanting to be honest and open about where it fits in her Maslovian pyramid.
Those talented friends of mine, by the way, are both guys who are losing their hair, whereas my hair is thick and lustrous.