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rynlingIn an essay I recently wrote about Junji Ito's manga "Town of No Roads," part of my conclusion is a paragraph that goes...
The pleasure of a labyrinth is that you can enjoy the sensation of getting lost while always knowing that you can simply leave. Perhaps the same can be said of nostalgia as well, and so much the better. The reactionary mode of thought that insists society used to be better when protections for individual rights and dignity were more limited has unpleasant implications, after all. Perhaps it’s best not to linger in this space for too long.
This makes sense in relation to the story, but what I also mean is that a mode of thought that's essentially like "things were better before Second Wave Feminism and the Civil Rights Movement" steps into the territory of horror. I don't say that part out loud, but a careful reader will probably understand what's going on.
But the editor, who usually replies in less than an hour, hasn't responded to my submission at all. So now I'm wondering, like. Did I fuck up somehow? Was even this guarded reference to (almost laughably centrist) real-world politics too overt? Or, on the contrary, am I not being overt enough?
I just don't know anymore.
ETA: Okay, I'm going to be an adult and write a follow-up email to the editor. I really need to have more self-confidence. It's a good essay!
The pleasure of a labyrinth is that you can enjoy the sensation of getting lost while always knowing that you can simply leave. Perhaps the same can be said of nostalgia as well, and so much the better. The reactionary mode of thought that insists society used to be better when protections for individual rights and dignity were more limited has unpleasant implications, after all. Perhaps it’s best not to linger in this space for too long.
This makes sense in relation to the story, but what I also mean is that a mode of thought that's essentially like "things were better before Second Wave Feminism and the Civil Rights Movement" steps into the territory of horror. I don't say that part out loud, but a careful reader will probably understand what's going on.
But the editor, who usually replies in less than an hour, hasn't responded to my submission at all. So now I'm wondering, like. Did I fuck up somehow? Was even this guarded reference to (almost laughably centrist) real-world politics too overt? Or, on the contrary, am I not being overt enough?
I just don't know anymore.
ETA: Okay, I'm going to be an adult and write a follow-up email to the editor. I really need to have more self-confidence. It's a good essay!
