Is it OK to be a Luddite?

[Otto]

>
> My admiration for the essay increases with time and rereadings.  To me
it's
> got the density of a book's worth of musings compressed into the NYT essay
> format.  If only P would publish the book version--though in some ways he
> already has!
>
> d.

Davemarc, you're so right -- especially I agree with your opinion that the
novel has already been written, but it's author refuses to talk about his
writing, give interviews and so on -- so that the (few) essay(s) become(s)
really important, because in the novels of that guy we only have
"narrators" -- but here "he" speaks and we hear "his" opinions, things that
made him write his novels the way he did.

Otto