Do you suppose one must major in his or her native tongue to be a writer of any consequence? Is the forced and autocratic instruction in some haughty institution where creative writing is truly born? Sure it's a terribly tragedy to have an outstanding voice in your heart while your brain lacks the means to convey it in prose, but is it easier for one's unique literary style to break through once buried in technicality? A great number of illustrious authors have come from modest education, I'm sure; self taught, efficacious writers. Or am I deceiving myself? What's your take?
manko:
sadly it did decline, mutate and adapt itself to the mainstream. You have to flip through many pages of Egg to find anything remotely outrageous. However when do we do tributes to a current trend? That would be just... trendy, hence pointless, no?