All Comments on 'A Man and Alfred Hitchcock'

The intro is very lengthy, and it's probably not needed, since the poem already tells the story. It "tells" the story but doesn't really "show" anything. It's almost like reading an essay or news article. At least I get that feel from it. <br><br>Also, some of the lines detract from the poem: the man is dirtied in the private/place between his buttocks/dirtied/dirtied/dirtied/dirtied. <br><br>I appreciate all the effort you put into this piece, and it's obvious how strongly you feel about what happened. I think that energy would be better if you channeled it into another poem -- something more personal. Write what you know.

I am at a loss how to "rate" this.As Eve said before me, it is obvious how strongly you feel about this episode of inhuman cruelty. I will never feel about Hitchcock the same as I did before I read your intro. In fact, it would be too soon if I never saw another movie or television show he wrote, directed or produced. There is no amount of talent ormoney that can justify, in my opinion, what he did to another human being.It disgusts me. I would not have laughed, I would have cried for this man. I would have been ashamed to even have witnessed this disgusting display of inhumanity as a guest or paid viewer of this so-called joke.

The"rating" or "vote" here is not aimed at your writing skill. YOU are very well read, well-taught, a good writer of every attempt of yours that I have read, and you know I have read much of your work.

I am sorry I cannot give this a 5, I don't know how much a vote means to you, but I believe that you are probably more interested in getting the story "out there."

I just have to say that anyone who derives any type of pleasure from seeing a fellow human in such agony and humiliation ( NOT of his own choosing) is a sick depraved person. This will haunt me for a long time to come.

I hope you can find some sort of peace. I wish you nothing but love and comfort, sweet Lady. I hope you can find a way to help anyone who suffers like this that you are able to help. I hope I made sense...I'm sorry if I didn't.

J

I wish to second all of NJ comments. I will add that the issue of cruelty as a "joke" has been troubling me for some time, in real life as in art. Unfortunatly, I have found that even here in Lit. and in the poetry section, pieces which present people in humiliating or physically painful situations are applauded as funny and even awarded. One may say that these are 'merely' cases of artistic expression. My answer - only a naive people (or people with worse motives) would overlook the eroding effect of any text which comes to the public domain and legitimizes by its very appearance Sadism or other forms of cruelty as a legitimate leasure activity. At the other end, of course, writers write what they think will "pass" as acceptable. A sad reflection on the nature of the American society. <P>

I salute your effort and identify with your sentiment. I wish there were more people like you around here. <P>

With regard to the poem, I guess I am a bit confused. I was not clear what exactly happened to the worker (especially after reading your thoughts earlier). Did you 'plant' a Hitchkokian surprise (dark as it may be) at your ending? It was not clear to me.

There should be more like you here

07/23/08 by KOLKORE

With regard to the poem, I guess I am a bit confused. I was not clear what exactly happened to the worker (especially after reading your thoughts earlier). Did you 'plant' a Hitchkokian surprise (dark as it may be) at your ending? It was not clear to me.

(Denise)The account I read ended with people opening the door the next morning and seeing the man exhausted, weeping, and soiled and did not say what happened to him after that.

I wish that Literotica had a separate category for submissions of this sort. It's not Hot per se, but equally as enjoyable. You managed to make Hitchcock come off as ruthless and cunning as the killers you also write of. Well done!