“Here’s to the crazy ones,…”
Today, Marcel Reich-Ranicki aged 93, died in Frankfurt, Germany. Having survived the Warsaw Ghetto and loosing all his family in German concentration camps, it was all but reasonable to stay in post war Germany and believe in the culture of the “nation of poets and philosophers”. He did, and he did not stop to tell us how to move forward (not only in literature).
His resistless way of criticizing should be an inspiration for all of us and encourage us to name something as “bad” (or even worse) when it actually is. Maybe Robert’s section on criticism of visualizations is a contribution into the right direction and hopefully some of my “Good and Bad” encourage us to move forward by learning from what was not good.
