"...we must keep writers in a perpetual state of poverty..." And they have, too, with only a few exceptions. I don't make much and I have to fuel my career with what I have.
We at least have avoided (so far) the indignities placed on Eastern European writers during the Soviet era, where the bureaucracy insisted on personally vetting everything a writer wrote before it was published. The more politically critical writers like Solzhenitsyn were treated like criminals until they were forced to escape to the West to do what they wanted.
But it is also very obvious that electricity is just a dangerous game. Watch out for those live wires!
"...we must keep writers in a perpetual state of poverty..." And they have, too, with only a few exceptions. I don't make much and I have to fuel my career with what I have.
We at least have avoided (so far) the indignities placed on Eastern European writers during the Soviet era, where the bureaucracy insisted on personally vetting everything a writer wrote before it was published. The more politically critical writers like Solzhenitsyn were treated like criminals until they were forced to escape to the West to do what they wanted.
But it is also very obvious that electricity is just a dangerous game. Watch out for those live wires!
Yes, my voltage meter just arrived in the mail. I think my house was wired by a deranged lunatic. I'm off to shut off the power!