Dying public?

[Paul Mackin]

On Wed, 10 May 2000, Terrance wrote:

> Paul wonders why I am not so gentle with the French. Sorry,
> I've not a nationalistic bone in my humorous body, but I am
> concerned for the future and a future with out "Shakespeare"
> (my quotes) as Huxley taught us long ago (what a smart-alec
> graduate seminar student I am, eh? ) is a Brave New World. 
> 
> Cynically yours, 
> 
> TF
> 

I'm sure there were a lot of French writers who were also trotted out from
long ago. "Madame de Sevigne would not have put it better . . . "
Or "As Sainte-Beuve failed to note . . . " (this was well before 1968)

Max's mention of Philip Roth prompts ME to note I'm in the process of
reading The Human Stain. It's about one more maligned and falsely accused
male who happens to have been born the same year as me so naturally
sympathetic vibes abound. Another book I liked on this theme was Francine
Prose's Blue Angel. Definitely one of those surviving novel readers here.

			P.