Re: Notes from the university bottom

Ouch. Poor Woolf.

I happen to think insane people are interesting, but you know, it's got to be a tempered, refined insanity (a classy insanity, if you will)... still functioning seamlessly, but hopelessly unsatisfied with normalcy.

Even if you believe <i>Mrs. Dalloway</i> has nothing to say to you personally, it clearly meant something to Woolf and probably to other people. Critics who share Vonnegut's politics - which, let's face it, are a foundation for some of the examples you cited to prove his classiness - have emphasized exactly this subjective nature of interpretation (Stanley Fish is the best example I can think of, right now).

And then you pick on JDS for retreating from subjective public scrutiny? Alas! the futility of crying Sink Rome, and their tongues rot that speak against us!

luke

-------Original Message-------
From: tina carson <tina_carson@hotmail.com>

Sent: 07/09/03 11:00 PM
To: bananafish@roughdraft.org
Subject: Re: Notes from the university bottom

>
> All right, I be more plain.
I find Vonnegut, both him and his work, to be treasured. I greatly
dislike
Woolf both personally and her work, except for Orlando, which was, as far
as
I can tell, her only reason for being born. Joyce? Don't know much about

the person, love his stories but somtimes have to drag myself through
portions of his books because of his writing style. Any more questions?
tina

>Tina, do you mean Vonnegut as a person or as a writer?
>
>What if the other writers you're talking about (Woolf and Joyce, I
>presume?) really are "boorish louts?" If those personal characteristics
are
>honestly coming across in their writing, then the writing is at least
>"unpretentious and real." No?
>
>luke
>
>
>-------Original Message-------
>From: tina carson <tina_carson@hotmail.com>
>Sent: 07/09/03 02:03 PM
>To: bananafish@roughdraft.org
>Subject: RE: Notes from the university bottom
>
> >
> > Vonnegut is "classy" because he's unpretentious and real, and. unlike
>many
>other names recently mentioned here, is not a boorish lout.
>tina
>
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