Re: proper toons
Sundeep Dougal (holden@giasdl01.vsnl.net.in)
Wed, 28 Jul 1999 01:07:01 +0530
But, what surprises me is that none of you folk even give a passing
reference to early Leonard Cohen, before he, allegedly, became our man?
Or Paul Simon? Oh, I am waiting for Scottie to say something suitably
sneery about these self-pitying American lyricists. Dylan and
Lennon/McCartney of course being taken as a given and mentioned before.
And of the writers, aren't we yet missing Joseph Heller, or even Woody
Allen? And what about Richard Smullyan? Douglas Adams has been
mentioned, more than once, I guess, but I'd love to also include the guy
whosenameIamforgettingrightnowbutwhowrote Under the Frog and
theotherbookwhosetitleitselfeludesmerightnow...
(expect heavy heaping of scorn from Scottie here...) and then there is
Jay McInerney, and Nik Hornby and -- is it Helen Fielding? -- who wrote
the Diary of Bridgette Jones?
In this declamatory mode, I could go on to name some of the Indians
writing in English that some of you may want to check out at some point,
in addition to Naipaul:
Salman Rushdie (Haroun & the Sea of Stories)
Amitava Ghosh (Shadow Lines)
Upamanyu Chatterjee (English, August).
Vikram Seth's _Golden Gate_ is anyway more of an American novel than
anything else...
These 4, to name my favourites have of course written much more, but I
mention my favourites...
And none of you read P.G. Wodehouse or what? And among the contemporary
writers, I would even like to include Nigel Rees, if for nothing else,
_The Wimbledon Poisoner_ and Sue Townsend's Adrian Mole...ah, this list
could just grow unless I put a stop to it immediately...And ah, Agatha
Christie...
Hmmm, among the poets, anyone here for Edna St. Vincent Millay?
I am of course talking about the work and not the people concerned...Oh
well...
Sonny