Re: Notes from the river bottom

Hi all,

First, concerning this talk of Virginia Woolf and "an unpalatable streak of
snobbery and anti-Semitism"...

Eliot, Pound, Yeats, Joyce, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Wolfe, Anderson, Stein,
Lawrence, Celine....

The list could go on, and that's not even mentioning the painters. I love
them all, but I wouldn't have wanted to be friends with any of them.

For all her depression and her struggles, I'd have taken Dorothy Parker over
all of them to hang with. (And, of course, Franz. Always Franz.)

Anyway, just for fun, check out Alan Rudolph's evocative film *The Moderns.*
It's a blast on all things of the era, including art and all the attendant
nonsense and, of course, "unpalatable streaks of snobbery and anti-Semitism."

And Daniel, who feels qualified to announce that Vonnegut has no class (which
should convince anyone who had doubts that Vonnegut is as classy and
responsible a writer as they come), also writes:

"Class is like chalking your hands for a better grip but unchalked hands
aren't that much less tacky just maybe more sweaty."

And once again I feel compelled to point out that I have no idea what this
means, but I suspect it is simply incoherent.

Enjoying the conversation, more or less,

--John

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Received on Tue Jul 8 18:39:02 2003