Tuesday, May 18, 2010
"I will admit openly that I am myself an elitist, but of a very specific sort. There is, in short, good elitism and bad elitism. Good elitism embodies an unremitting quest for excellence and an intolerance for mediocrity; bad elitism, while seeming to seek excellence, declare a priori that certain realms cannot possibly produce excellent and therefore maintains that these realms are aesthetically off-limits before even examining them in any detail." -- S.T. Joshi, Junk Fiction