Re: PLATO
WILL HOCHMAN (hochman@uscolo.edu)
Mon, 27 Oct 1997 10:35:04 -0700 (MST)
but the thing of it is that catcher doesn't need banning to "stick
around"--it's a book that will be read for centuries because of much more
than negative idiocy...will
On Sun, 26 Oct 1997, Kathy Dexter wrote:
> 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?
> 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.
>
>