Re: Time Magazine & Lit
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Wed, 03 Jun 1998 16:23:41 +1000
I agree on the White issue - it would seem that the African Nation hasn't
produced one single influential person for nearly 100 years, wouldn't it?
And those on the literary list can't be too influential because I haven't
heard of half of them! The one that pissed me off the most though is Oprah
Winfrey - she sure as hell hasn't influenced me! True, she may have
influenced a generation of fat butted white trash to go out and buy
whatever hideous tome she's hawking this week, but *please*! Just goes to
show you the power of Trash!
It struck me when I went to American how inward looking the society is.
It's like a hermetically sealed bubble. I heard a statistic that something
like 55% of Americans wouldn't want to travel overseas because, quote `You
can see it all on TV anyway'. Please don't think I'm misappropriating all
of America, I'm not generalising here, I'm just telling you how I felt as
an outsider looking in, which is nearly impossible if you're an insider. A
goldfish can't draw its own goldfish bowl even though it lives in it all
its life. But there's quite a few on that list who I'm sure are very
influential to Americans but frankly haven't influenced jack squat over
here.
Camille
verona_beach@geocities.com
@ THE ARTS HOLE
www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/6442
> Poetry: First Place: Eliot
> Hon. Mentions: Yeats, Frost, Auden, Plath, Ginsberg
> Remember, all, this is not supposed to be the most influential White
> Males of the century (though you may easily be misled into thinking so)
> nor even the most influential writers in the so-called Western
> tradition, but rather, of the world. Hmmm.... Who would you have picked?
> -emily