[lit-ideas] Re: [Spam] Re: nameless celebrities?
- From: "Steven G. Cameron" <stevecam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 09:16:02 -0500
JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
> <<I wonder if august subscribers to this list would enjoy
> naming "that which has proved unreadable," the work they have owned longer
> than any other unfinished book?>>
>
> Middlemarch. I've read War & Peace 20 times and can't get through
> Middlemarch. I can't get past chapter 13. I've tried.....dozens of times.
> I finally
> just gave up and put it on the shelf to look good.
**Eliot's _Middlemarch_ is at the top of my list -- even more satisfying
than _Pride and Prejudice_. Perhaps if you skip the chapter where you
are constantly stalled, you may be able to continue. First try took me
a couple of months to read it -- quite rewarding...
> <<Good wishes to Julie.>>
> Danka. I'm on my way back to humanity, having woken ravenous rather than
> thoroughly nauseous this morning. However, to a righteously indignant teen
> whose only shirt in the world she can wear is dirty. I think I'll go back
> to
> being sick....
**It's made the rounds of our entire family -- taking almost a full
month to abate. Hope you've better luck than we.
TC,
/Steve Cameron, NJ
> Julie Krueger
>
>
> ========Original Message======== Subj: [lit-ideas] Re: nameless
> celebrities? Date: 3/1/05 6:23:23 P.M. Central Standard Time From:
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> on 2/28/05 5:44 PM, Robert Paul at robert.paul@xxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>
>>David Ritchie wrote:
>>
>> The most famous nameless person, at least among British lawyers of a
>
> certain
>
>>age, is "the man on the Clapham omnibus." He surely deserves a novel of
>
> his
>
>>own even if it must be titled, "Diary of a Nobody."
>>
>>Professor Ritchie toys with us. He's waiting for some gullible
>>literalist to point out that this title is taken.
>>
>
> Two thoughtlets:
>
> 1) Is not the most famous nameless celebrity in the bible g-d?
>
> 2) "Diary of a Nobody" is on a list of books that I have owned a long time
> but never finished. I wonder if august subscribers to this list would enjoy
> naming "that which has proved unreadable," the work they have owned longer
> than any other unfinished book?
>
> Good wishes to Julie.
>
> David Ritchie
> Portland, Oregon
>
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