Re: The Writers One Loves
Paul Kennedy (kennedyp@toronto.cbc.ca)
Tue, 27 Jul 1999 12:24:10 -0400 (EDT)
These are fighting words:
>
> personally I suspect anyone who puts Will down on their love list of
>being a secret section man. The same with those who put down Ulysses or
>War and Peace as their favorite books -- section men, all of them.
>
>
And although I like to think of myself as a thoreauly non-violent kinda guy,
I'm going to have to challenge you to a duel!
In fact, I challenge anybody to come up with a writer who has produced as
many loveable (or, for that matter, detestable....) characters as William
Shakespeare. Assuming that, in some way, he had those characters in his
head (or in his soul) before he put them onto paper (and ultimately onto the
stage), he has to be, BY DEFINITION, the world's most loveable author....
(If you'd used FINNEGAN's WAKE instead of ULYSSES, I might have agreed with
you about Joyce, though....)
Cheers,
Paul