Subject: RE: Banned Books
From: George Ford (bf20455@binghamton.edu)
Date: Tue Mar 11 1997 - 22:31:31 GMT
>
> Ah yes, you accept chaos but you're not sure if it accepts you?
Whoa. Nice Dylan reference.
Also, and more importantly, on the remark that was made about modern
writing being tripe or crap or whatever word was used, not having any
significance or sense of timelessness (I'm doing a horrible job of
paraphrasing, but I trust you know to what I'm referring), may I point out
that is is important to seperate the Danielle Steeles of the world from
the actual literature of the day. The work of Steele, etc., as far as I'm
concerned, simply don't count. We must instead focus on the truly
literary(not to mention literate) works being published. When one does
this, one realizes that we are actually prety well off:
Cormac McCarthy
E.Annie Proulx
Barbara Kingsolver
John Updike
I could conceivably go on. The point is we are not so culturally bankrupt
as is sometimes (cynically) believed.
_George F
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