[nlr&nla] Re: [np] a walk on the what?!

[Lycidas at worldnet.att.net]

s~Z wrote:
> 
> I'm glad Poe and Melville had better things to do than re-work the art of
> others.
> 
> I get to go hang out with Vladimir and Estragon at LA's Matrix Theatre
> tonight. Haven't tired of Godot since its introduction to me on a senior
> high school English class turntable almost 30 years ago.

Actually, Melville does "re-work" the art of others & Poe
too, but like Shakespeare and  Pynchon, they are but the few
that have,

 "evinced that decided originality which merits great
praise."

		-- Melville, "Hawthorne and His Moses."