Re: Notes from the river bottom

Bravo, John, I was going to say something about the Algonquin round table
myself, but for some reason, thought better of it. Yes, I, to, would
"hang" with Dorothy, though that expression sounds dreadful with an English
accent.
tina

>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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