Re: Too Stern Eliot


Subject: Re: Too Stern Eliot
From: Louise Z. Brooks (invertedforest@angelfire.com)
Date: Sun Feb 20 2000 - 23:58:45 EST


Okay then. I appear to be dealing with anti-Eliotites (despite the fact that his approach to literature and life parallels Salinger's in more ways than I can list). But let's pretend we are all postmodernists, do not believe in the author, and then re-consider the usefulness of the phrase? Because it is useful.

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Louise Z. Brooks
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On Sun, 20 Feb 2000 20:56:29 AntiUtopia wrote: >In a message dated 2/20/00 8:54:35 PM Eastern Standard Time, >mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu writes: > >> "[...] I stumbled upon a very appropriate quote on the weekend, from >> TS Eliot, who stated that every book ever written alters every book >> written before it [...]" >> >> Only books in the official Tough Shit Eliot canon have this formidable >> capacity. Eliot is a fine one for remembering that literature is not, >> in fact, democratic. >> >> -- >> Matt Kozusko > >I think Eliot was only talking about HIS books :) > >Jim >- >* Unsubscribing? Mail majordomo@roughdraft.org with the message >* UNSUBSCRIBE BANANAFISH >

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