Handy Literary-Credibility Index

[Mittelwerk at aol.com]

(key:  highest is best; lowest is worst)

10 - Writers With Very Large Body-Count (e.g.  Goethe, Kant, Marx, the
Prophet Muhammed)

9 - Writers Whose Neuroses Harmonizes With That Of Readers To Create Literary
Symbiote (e.g. Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Pynchon, Emily Dickinson, Jorge
Luis Borges, Herman Melville)

8 - Pathos-Generating Post-Gnostic Failures (Dostoyevsky, Henry Miller,
Theodor Adorno, Karl Kraus, Alexander Cockburn, Bertolt Brecht)

7 - The Addicted, The Syphilitic, etc... (Baudelaire, de Sade, Burroughs,
Heidegger)

6 - Couldn't Take Subject-Matter (Plath, Kozinsky, Berryman, Woolf, etc...)

5 - Proletarian Root-Canal (Zola, Nathanael West, Steinbeck, Gass, Arthur
Miller, Mailer)

4 - Necessary Frauds (Delillo, Gaddis, Boyle, Fitzgerald, Vidal, Alice Walker
etc...)

3 - Mere Cock Rock or Pussy Muzak (Updike, Jeanette Winterson, Toni Morrison,
Joyce Carol Oates)

2 - Moloch (Wittgenstein, anybody who writes for television, Bazooka Joe
serialists)

1 - Writers Who Are Not Human-Beings At All But Are In Fact Heavily-Fortified
Cray Supercomputers (Mary Higgins Clark, Dean Koontz, Tom Clancy, Mittelwerk)

0 - Judas (copyists for comicbook advertisements, ex-pat cuckolds with
castration wishes, staff of the American Enterprise Institute.)

thank you