Re: THE INVERTED FOREST

Malcolm Lawrence (malcolm@wolfenet.com)
Sun, 26 Jul 1998 23:58:04 -0700

Camille wrote:

> Excellent.  I think comparing "high style" lit to something more
> contemporary and pop sort of "takes the edge" off of it.  Its always fun to
> give a classic piece of lit a slightly different slant.  I once wrote a
> comparison paper on Tennyson's "Marianna" and the song "She Talks to Angels"
> by The Black Crowes.

When I was a junior in high school I once wrote a comparison paper on The Epic
of Gilgamesh and the album Quadrophenia by The Who. My humanities teacher, who
was at Woodstock and the Concert for Bangladesh and regularly let me borrow her
Dylan, Janis, Stones and Hendrix albums, loved it.

Malcs