Re: _Ulysses_ vs. _The Fountainhead_
patrick flaherty (pfkw@email.msn.com)
Fri, 24 Jul 1998 13:20:31 -0400
-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Kozusko <mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu>
To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu <bananafish@lists.nyu.edu>
Date: Friday, July 24, 1998 1:15 PM
Subject: Re: _Ulysses_ vs. _The Fountainhead_
>Malcolm Lawrence wrote:
>
>> Literature is not sports. Who cares?
>
>The Illiad and the Odyssey are essentially sports poems.
Yes. Aren't professional sports the "mythology" of middle class America
The battle
>scenes are especially sporty. I surveyed a Sophomore literature class
>last spring, asking them what the last book was that they'd read. All
>the footbal players except one answered _Chapman's Complete Homer_.
>
>ObSal: Pencey football, stickball.
>
>--
>Matt Kozusko mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu