From: julie@pascal.org   
      
   On Saturday, November 29, 2014 2:55:04 PM UTC-7, William Vetter wrote:   
   > Michelle Bottorff was thinking very hard :   
   > > J.Pascal  wrote:   
   > >   
   > >> A relatively "big" author (I remember who but I'm going to mangle the   
   > >> quote so I probably ought not say that so and so said this exactly) once   
   > >> explained that if the purpose is emotional engagement and emotional   
   > >> response that negative emotions are the easiest to manipulate.  That   
   > >> "happy" is actually, artistically, more difficult to do well.   
   > >   
   > > I find it way easier to annoy people than to make their day, for sure.   
   > >>> rueful::   
   >   
   > Do you think _Romeo and Juliet_ sucks?   
      
   What point are you trying to make?   
      
   That Romeo and Juliet is sad and stupid at the end and they die?   
      
   Saying that a happy ending is harder to do *well* isn't a statement that all   
   endings must be happy or that all sad endings are lazy.   
      
   As a reader, though, I'd rather cry in the middle and cheer at the end.   
      
   -Julie   
      
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