Re: _Ulysses_ vs. _The Fountainhead_

Malcolm Lawrence (malcolm@wolfenet.com)
Fri, 24 Jul 1998 10:34:28 -0700

> Malcs wrote:
> >
> >> Literature is not sports. Who cares?

Then Matt wrote:

> >The Illiad and the Odyssey are essentially sports poems.

Then Pat wrote:

> Yes.  Aren't professional sports the "mythology" of middle class America

So neither of you have had your coffee yet? I said "literature is not
sports," not "sports is not literature." The cult of celebrity is the
"mythology" of the West, and sports is a subgenre of that cult.

Reminds me of that classic Monty Python skit: Thomas Hardy sitting down with
a fresh piece of paper for the Olympic Novel-Writing Championships.

Malcs