1099, RE: BENDIGO SHAFTER - COMPROMISE Posted by blamour, Sat Apr-17-21 06:39 PM
>Dan Brown (The DaVinci Code) writes at >masterclass .com that a writer may have >a "distinctive voice that transcends >individual works". I get that >impression from LL.
My take is "Yeah, of course" ... but if you are trying to divine some sort of moral message that MUST be ABSOLUTELY consistent across dozens of works and several decades you could be asking too much of any writer or what he bothered to write down while trying to earn a living from one day to the next. In some ways it's easier for Dan Brown to say this, you can count his works on both hands, and you don't need both hands.
My feeling is that if you raise expectations too high you are asking for trouble and inviting disappointment. As was noted in another thread Dad could sometimes create a staggering number of pages in a very short time. Sometimes things said that are separated by many years, end up being in conflict with one another.
The baseline with Louis is: Have Fun With It ... but be careful taking it as scripture. Dad was an entertainer. He may have occasionally thought of himself as inspiring education through his writing. That means he wanted the work to open people's minds. It wasn't an education, it was intended to engage curiosity so the reader might then educate themselves through other works, works of non-fiction, on various subjects they found interesting.
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