Juri Nummelin <
jurnum@utu.fi> writ:
> On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, ejmd wrote:
[ANIP]
> > > general tendency
> > in modernism: eg, Lawrence's city is 'the great
wrong place' while the
> > country is presented as idyllic.
>
>[SNIP]
> Romantic poets (Wordsworth, Coleridge) and people
like Rousseau
[SNIP]
> are not hardboiled.
<g>
> With the possible exception of
> Rousseau - Herbert Stinson wrote a series about P.I.
Pete Rousseau for
> Black Mask...
:-D
> But of course this dichotomy between town and
country is
> prevalent in almost all Western texts since
1800.
[Go on then, Juri I'll play the straight man for ya
...]
Sounds like 1799 was been a hell of a year ... what
happened?
ED ;-)
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