> 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