To add: the first page of Absalom, Absalom! is a mini-clinic
for real writing, I think.
--- Jacques Debierue <
matrxtech@yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Robert Elkin
> <rictusaporia@...> wrote:
> >
> Where I DID find hostility was
> > in your anti-intellectual "big
brain"/"Joyce"
> > comments, whether intended or not.
>
> One should not mess with Joyce: who here can hope
to
> write as brilliantly as he did? Some
> prissy motherfucker who taught me literature
in
> college used to dismiss Faulkner as
> somebody who didn't know how to write
("bad
> grammar", etc.). You gotta laugh... (I
didn't
> then, because I was earnest about Books, think
about
> that...). Oh, this person also thought
> Stevenson was a mere entertainer...
>
> Best,
>
> MrT
>
>
>
>
>
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