[lit-ideas] Re: FW: RE: Re: Just read a novel
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 13:02:45 -0400
> [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.
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