Atonists as a genre of people
I wish I could give another modern example of Jes Grew like we talked about in class yesterday, but nothing comes to mind besides hip-hop, which we talked about already. Today I want to talk about how much I appreciate Reed's unapologetically postmodernist writing style and how it has provided me with a new, convenient way to think about the world around me. Hinckle is a "villain" if there ever was one. He has an eye patch, evil laugh, evil plan, and is hundreds of years old. He answers to a mysterious order that has seemingly one goal, which is to ruin other's fun. The Atonist creed ends with the line "Lord, if I can’t dance, No one shall." Reed is postmodernist in his writings of Hinckle in many areas. In Ragtime, we practically watched as Doctorow reached down his hand and wrote Houdini into the story in an unapologetically postmodern fashion, driving him down the street and crashing him into a pole in front of the family's house. The sheer over-the...