Re: fitzgerald vs. hemingway & wolfe

>Well, that and he felt sooo victimized by women.
>
>Jim
>

I wonder, Jim, if you have ever been around a lady friend that may have had
a deleterious effect on your creative output (granting of course...)?
Because the Fitzgerald formula was something like this:
timorous emasculated great male writer
+testosterone laced envious lady pen
=trouble in paradise.

Kim: Critics do not call writers geniuses for their idiosyncracies. They
say it because critics failed in life. Complaining, as some once did, that
Fitzgerald never developed after The Great Gatsby makes me convinced all
literary critics are certain to die a long, painful death, and are sure to
be reincarnated in the next life as dung beetles.

Wolfe: "Salinger is the classic case of burn out."

Gedsudski:"Wolfe is the classic bloated sellout."

Yours,

John Gedsudski
Professor of Epicurean Studies
Philistia Community College
501 Boorish Drive
NY,NY

>Kim Johnson wrote:
>
>>Re-read a lot of Scott Fitzgerald's work this week. God, I love that man.
>>Damn fool critics are forever
>>calling writers geniuses for their
>>idiosyncracies--Hemingway for his reticent dialogue,
>>Wolfe for his gargantuan enery, and so on. Fitzgerald's only idiosyncracy
>>was his pure
>>brilliance.
>>
>>--J. D. Salinger
>>
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