Subject: Re: my monkey could beat up your monkey
From: Valérie Aron (miss_vertigo18@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Apr 25 2001 - 14:26:19 GMT
My favorite authors are: John Steinbeck, Robert
MacLiam Wilson, William Faulkner, André Gide, Romain
Gary, Thomas Pynchon. Maybe because I don't read any
others...
Valérie
--- Jive Monkey <monkey_jive@hotmail.com> wrote:
> My favorite authors are Largo C. and Ernie Hemm. I
> once translated a quaker
> oats box into swahili. It took a long time. I
> translated Ace of Base into
> english 23 times. My email address is shorter than
> yours. My favorite
> book is "Stranger in a Strange Land" by Robert
> Heinlein. By the way, Ceda,
> would you give it back? I haven't met anyone who
> has gotten the point of
> anything, ever.
>
> From: "Lambodara" <ganesha@rochester.rr.com>
> Reply-To: bananafish@roughdraft.org
> To: <bananafish@roughdraft.org>
> Subject: Other Authors
> Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 00:38:46 -0400
>
> fans of salinger (as represented on this list
> anyway) seem to have plenty of
> interests in the world of art (or psuedo-art) and
> literature, so I was
> wondering what other authors you all read. I have
> just finished Ahwosg by
> Dave Eggers and think that salinger fans must love
> this guy. here we have
> someone who looks much like salinger at the world,
> uses almost the same
> prose form to approach his audience, and is readily
> available. you can talk
> to this guy, you can see him in bookstores...he's
> not finding Forrester's
> "the face". how does he seem to you? what
> intrigues you about him? and by
> the way...why does the literary world appreciate
> catcher (far from the top
> of my list) and pass over franny and zooey, which
> may well be the best book
> I have had the pleasure of reading. if I have
> offended you, or I have
> identified myself as a phoney, then turn me off and
> forget my mail, which
> shall go past you as innocuous and undoubtedly
> forgettable, which it is.
> but you know...i have read the bhagavad gita in
> Sanskrit, i have translated
> it, i have read 23 translations of it, and I think
> salinger is the only one
> who got the point. that means something in my book.
> that's my disconnected
> statement for the day,
> so long
> Stephen J Brown
>
>
>
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