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