Re: PLATO
randy royal (randyr@mailhub.jaxnet.com)
Sun, 26 Oct 1997 20:01:14 +0000
yes, people have that hole mentaility of "oh, it's been banned! i'm
going to read it and be *naughty*!" allen ginsberg's howl comes to
mind...
> it seems that any book that gets widely banned sticks around for quite
> awhile. so maybe catcher will be around as long as tom sawyer...
> also, one of my english profs made mention to a story that jd wrote last
> year or about that time and said it was about a sailor. anyone know
> anything more?
did he say if it was published? i'm sure jd wrote thousands of
stories, all waiting for the reincarnation of max brod to come along
and posthumonuosly publish them. sighhh.
randy
> finally cool enough to wear flannel in waco, tx.--matt
>
>
> On Sun, 26 Oct 1997 09:55:07 -0800 sgallagher@lasersedge.net (Steve
> Gallagher) wrote:
>
> >Revistied this quote this morning; made me think of JDS: "Whoever comes
> >to
> >the gates of literature without the Muses' madness, believing that
> >technique alone will make him an adequate writer, is himself
> >ineffectual,
> >and the writing of this sane man vanishes before that of the man who is
> >mad." PLATO, *Phaedrus*
> >
> >Just how long is CITR going to be around? How soon will reprints
> >require
> >footnotes? Is JD ever goning to snap out of it? Beautiful morning to
> >wonder. Leaves and rain falling fast in Vancouver.
>
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