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<DIV>I read a couple of them over 30 years ago -- recall very little about them,
other than that they plod along and the prose rarely soars.</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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<A title=markekohut@yahoo.com href="mailto:markekohut@yahoo.com">Mark
Kohut</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=markekohut@yahoo.com
href="mailto:markekohut@yahoo.com">Mark Kohut</A> ; <A
title=against.the.dave@gmail.com href="mailto:against.the.dave@gmail.com">Dave
Monroe</A> ; <A title=pynchon-l@waste.org
href="mailto:pynchon-l@waste.org">pynchon -l</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, August 17, 2013 7:33
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: NP very Misc on C.P
Snow</DIV>
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<DIV style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Library in Nashville still
cannot give away Snow's novels. And I never see them praised any more in
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style="RIGHT: auto">journalistic histories of 20th Century English
fiction...in fact, have seen them dissed in a couple......</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Compared to Powell's
series, say....</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">And to think I once wanted
to read them.<VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR></SPAN></DIV>
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face=Arial><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Mark Kohut
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style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> Dave Monroe <<A
href="mailto:against.the.dave@gmail.com">against.the.dave@gmail.com</A>>;
pynchon -l <<A
href="mailto:pynchon-l@waste.org">pynchon-l@waste.org</A>> <BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Saturday, August 17, 2013 6:21
AM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> NP very Misc on
C.P Snow<BR></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN>Herbert Gold, who replaced Nabokov as English prof at Cornell, and
himself a once-praised novelist--</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN>although Roth once got, compassionately, to the botttom of one
failed novel (in his opinion)---is the</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN>major American blurb writer on the US edition of Snow's Stran<VAR
id=yiv2021330783yui-ie-cursor></VAR>gers & Brothers, 1st in that series.
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style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Dave Monroe
<against.the.dave@gmail.com><BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> pynchon -l
<pynchon-l@waste.org> <BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Friday, August 16, 2013 6:50
PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Leavis v Snow:
the two-cultures bust-up 50 years on<BR></FONT></DIV>
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class=yiv2021330783y_msg_container><BR>http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/aug/16/leavis-snow-two-cultures-bust<BR><BR><BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV><BR><BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>