Re: Shallow Intellectual Drivel on this List
patrick flaherty (pfkw@email.msn.com)
Mon, 03 Aug 1998 00:26:53 -0400
-----Original Message-----
From: Mistalina <beatific@hempseed.com>
To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu <bananafish@lists.nyu.edu>
Date: Sunday, August 02, 1998 11:35 PM
Subject: Re: Shallow Intellectual Drivel on this List
>At 06:20 PM 8/2/98 -0400, you wrote:
>><<Interesting! Although I'm loath to raise this argument again, that's a
>>very
>>telling point. I doubt, for example, you'd have the same diversity of
>>input
>>in say, the Joyce listserve (although I could be wrong and probably am)
>>
>>Well, that's the view from a frequent contributor - how about the rest of
>>you?
>>
>>Camille >>
>>
>>Funny you say that. I was on the Joyce list some time back and it is
>>radically different from this one. Nope, it's not nearly as diverse, and
>>it's heavily populated with Scholars and underrepresented by casual
>>readers who just enjoy Joyce's work.
>>
>>Kinda says a lot ;)
>>
>>Jim
>
>I'm on that particular list right now, and it's not what one might expect.
>
>Misty
>
>
>but look at Faulkner, he not only said the same thing over and
>over but he said the same
>place
>--Charles Bukowski
One of my favorite things about Buk is how often he wrote about reading. Am
I right in saying this is taken from something in _The Last Night of the
Earth Poems_?
Does anyone know of a Bukowski list?
patrick
pfkw@msn.com
>