Re: _Ulysses_ vs. _The Fountainhead_
WILL HOCHMAN (hochman@uscolo.edu)
Fri, 24 Jul 1998 11:46:52 -0600 (MDT)
In point of Salinger fact, our man "Jerry" makes an appearance in
_Shoeless Joe_ by W.P.kinsella (later made into _Field of Dreams_ for the
big screens) (and now a playing field for our "small" screens;), a book
that might well be synthesize sports and lit as well as me wishing I had a
baseball signed by my favorite writers...I guess I'm really not doing much
more than joining matt in his laughing since neither of the subject's
books mean much to me, will
ps (for me, my favorite Joyce texts were Dubliners and Finnegan's
Wake--sorry--I also liked _Atlas Shrugged_ better than _Fountainhead_ but
please don't ask why) (unless I'm wrong about matt wanting to make fun of
how we rank authors in the first place...)
On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Malcolm Lawrence wrote:
> Matt Kozusko wrote:
>
> > The Illiad and the Odyssey are essentially sports poems. 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_.
>
> Whatsa matta you? I said "Literature is not sports," not "literature is
> not about sports." Oy yoy yoy. Your assertion about The Iliad and the
> Odyssey is whimsical, but I'd sure like to see you hold it up for a
> complete assertation. Ready, steady, go!
>
>