Personal Scatologies

[David Casseres]

I wrote
>> ... the 
>> 20th-century spectacle of novel after novel after novel *about being a 
>> university professor* is truly one the more hideous effects of 
>> capitalism.

Andrew replies
>Well, having just finished David Lodge's `Small World' I'll disagree
>at least to the extent that this cloud comes complete with silver
>lining. And I suspect Antonia Byatt's Possession (I have a sneaking
>regard for some of her other stuff too) is another honourable
>exception. Did anyone else note that they both quote the same line
>from Hawthorne regarding `Romance'?

Oh, I didn't mean to imply at all that any novel about being a professor 
is automatically a Bad Thing.  It's only that there aren't enough novels 
about the rest of the gang.


Cheers,
David