Re: food for thought
Josh Feldmeth (joshfeldmeth@mail.utexas.edu)
Sun, 21 Feb 1999 12:59:40 -0600
Tim,
We might be able to go as far to say someone who is both articulate and
intereted in Lit. had taken some of the first steps toward success.
At 12:37 PM 2/21/99 -0500, you wrote:
>At 5:10 PM +0000 on 2/21/99, you wrote:
>
>> 'It has been the fate of the arts from the beginning of time
>> to be spoken about mainly by articulate failures.'
>>
>> It's a quotation from John le Carre which I've just read in
>> the Sunday Times (London) Books section.
>>
>> Hard to dispute that one, huh?
>
>I'm sure John Updike and Lorrie Moore and Madison Smartt Bell would,
>perhaps, find that idea, while clever, a little too glib for its own
>good.... They all manage to write fiction and ABOUT fiction quite well.
>
>--tim (who has negative days but refuses to be considered an "articulate
>failure"!)
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