Subject: Re: your mail
From: B.H.Speaker (bhs0732@unix.tamu.edu)
Date: Sun Jun 01 1997 - 22:28:31 GMT
On Sun, 1 Jun 1997, Emily Moore wrote:
> Hi all. What's this dig about Burroughs being shite because he has no
> plot? Never read him myself but gee, hasn't that dig been made of our
> very own JDS as well? Also, just a point: re one of my favorites,
> Conrad: was there really a plot in "Heart of Darkness?" I don't think
> there was. And JC reminds me-who would you include if the greatest
> authors list was opened to all of the 20th century? Perhaps Fitzgerald?
> Perhaps Conrad? Who else? I wonder if anyone thinks any non-WASP
> authors are worthy of The List. (just something i noticed about the
> majority of the names we came up with.)
Just to set the record straight, Fitzgerald was of Irish descent and
therefore likely Catholic American heritage. And Joseph Conrad was born Jozef
Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski of Polish parents in Berdichev, Ukraine. Both
writers were white, but niether was Anglo-Saxon (Although Conrad did live
for several years in the English county of Kent), and it is unlikely that
either was Protestant.
I just thought it pertinent to mention that white people who write in the
English language are not necessarily WASPs.
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