Critic's Shelf of Shame

[Dave Monroe]

Works fine for me, at least.  Keep trying, Otto.  But
Garry Wills isn't really quite playing in the spirit
of teh game, is he?  And too bad they weren't able to
ask Louis Althusser, now THERE was an interesting
admission of omission.  But here's the gist of it ...

  "In his novel Changing Places, David Lodge describes
a literary parlor game called "Humiliations" in which 
                                       participants
confess, one by one, titles of books they've never
read. The genius of the game is that each player gains
a point for each fellow player who's read the book—in
other words, the more accomplished the reader, the
lower his or her score. Lodge's winner is an
American"--of course ...--"professor who, in a rousing
display of one-downmanship, finally announces that
he's never read Hamlet.
   "What would happen if book critics and literary
journalists played a round of Lodge's game?"

This is what we find out.  My guess is that I'd be a
contender, at least.  Only recently (past few years)
read Moby-Dick (and I preferred the whaling stuff),
have never read War and Peace, moved my eyes over the
various pages of Finnegans Wake, largely in sequence,
at least, a la adding vermouth to an exceedingly dry
martini.  And so forth ...



--- Otto Sell <o.sell at telda.net> wrote:
> All I get is an error message
> 
> Otto 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Musashi Miyamoto <scuffling at hotmail.com>
> To: Pynchon List <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 7:18 PM
> Subject: Critic's Shelf of Shame
> 
> 
> > Even the hot-shot critics haven't gotten around to
> reading some of the
> > literary canons:
> > 
> >
>
http://slate.msn.com/culturebox/entries/01-03-06_101969.asp
> > 
> > but apparently they've all read Gravity's Rainbow
> :-)
> > 
> > H Musik
> 
> 


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