Personification

[pjthompson]

Random quote of the day:

 

“Nothing is so beautiful and wonderful, nothing is so continually fresh and surprising, so full of sweet and perpetual ecstasy, as the good. No desert is so dreary, monotonous, and boring as evil. This is the truth about authentic good and evil. With fictional good and evil it is the other way round.  Fictional good is boring and flat, while fictional evil is varied and intriguing, attractive, profound, and full of charm.”

—Simone Weil, Morality and Literature

 

 

Disclaimer:  The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Comments

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

How true.

[pjthompson.livejournal.com]

The banality of real evil; the fake deliciousness of bad boys.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Hah! Posted my comment before I saw yours.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

So very very true. Thinking of Hannah Arendt and the banality of evil.

[pjthompson.livejournal.com]

Same here. :-)

[marycatelli]

I concede it takes skill, but you can work on it in fiction.

[pjthompson.livejournal.com]

True. Skill and tightrope balance.