Scans_Daily

Very good points all! If Morrison is saying middle class people don't feel as strong despair as lower class people, UM, what, way to fetishize poverty! By knowing and understanding a universal emotion such as despair, you can bring that concept into your work through any form of storytelling. THAT is what "write what you know means"!! Not blowing up space stations : D

I understand that Morrison may be responding to the other end of this spectrum.. privileged writers who exploit real people and issues to up the drama in their stories - ie Stephanie Myers making her werewolves more Tragic and In Harmony With Nature by writing them as Quileute Native Americans. But!!! As others have said...when has Chris Ware ever done that? What a strange example to use, Morrison! You are confusing us all!

(thanks, glad you liked my icon! always glad to meet a fellow Hopey enthusiast :D)