"Selling Book and Oprah"
A Response to Jason, Chris L, et al.
The problem as I see it is that by conflating Faulker + Cormac + (other good shit) with horrible brainwashing pseudo-religious crapola like The Secret, either a) diminishes F + C +(OGS) or ... Nuthin'.
Another way to look at it: if you add chocolate ice cream to a pile of shit, how long 'til the mixture is "not-shitty" enough to eat?
Sorry to be gross no I'm not!
OR worse than all:
Oprah is RIGHT in combining beloved Faulker with Secret, and I am wrong, and HAVE BEEN WRONG the whole time, and it turns out that Faulkner is shit as well!
Last option (which is impossible) is that I'm doubly wrong, and that pseudo-religious positive thinking bullshit is actually the best way to be, and that the fragmented narratives in F and C are reflections of the deep structure of the universe, which is inherently probabilistic anyway, and so perception actually creates reality (sometimes as a consensus, sure) and so Faulker (and Joyce and all) actually are simply predicting the coming of the Secret, and that I need to get in line.
All three options blow.