Citat

Har precis påbörjat s4 av "The Wire", som verkar fortsätta rocka på. En av dem som tjatat på mig att se den är Nicklas, som häromveckan hittade det här citatet av seriens skapare David Simon, som är svårt att inte uppskatta:

My standard for verisimilitude is simple and I came to it when I started to write prose narrative: fuck the average reader. I was always told to write for the average reader in my newspaper life. The average reader, as they meant it, was some suburban white subscriber with two-point-whatever kids and three-point-whatever cars and a dog and a cat and lawn furniture. He knows nothing and he needs everything explained to him right away, so that exposition becomes this incredible, story-killing burden. Fuck him. Fuck him to hell.