> [Original Message] > From: Steve Chilson <stevechilson@xxxxxxxxxxx> > To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: 10/20/2006 2:42:39 AM > Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: FW: RE: Re: Just read a novel > > On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 18:20:39 -0400, "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > said: > > Well thank you very much. What if I turned into a great big insect and > > began climbing on the walls? Would you still invite me to dinner? > > No, but maybe Kafka would. Or at least write a book about you. A > nonfiction book of course, otherwise certain people who are above such > trivialities wouldn't bother reading it because it isn't "real". > Tried and true, tried and true. Kafka captures the world the way it really is, yes, the way it really is. So does Hemingway. So does Mary Shelly. So do a lot of them. They're worth reading and them I read. > "On the other hand, Eve Black doesn't much care about baseball, > especially since they can't > > restrain themselves from flying into buildings in their spare time." > > That's ok, I don't know who Eve Black is anyway so her apathy doesn't > strike me. > Apathy toward sports, so that doesn't count, unless one equates sports with substance. > PS- Death of A President was rerun here last night so I watched about 15 > minutes or so of it. Fakumentary, it should be called. No gory autopsy > close-ups. I was well disappointed. But I couldn't help wondering what > the reaction in liberal America would have been had someone like > Charlton Heston directed a similar film depicting the assassination of > Bill Clinton during Clinton's presidency. > -- They assassinated Bill's character for eight years with outright and forthright hostility and he survived. Bush gets the wish fulfillment, maybe because everybody luvs him. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html