antw. An intellectual joke

[lorentzen-nicklaus]

 + "famous family declines" -- "buddenbrooks", retold by thomas pynchon (kfl) * 


FrodeauxB at aol.com schrieb:

> For all you gray headed literati on the list, real or imagined:
> The Washington Post held a contest in which readers were asked to submit "a 
> well-known story as retold by a famous person." One outstanding entry: 
> "Karenin's wife dumps him for Vronsky. It doesn't work out. She jumps in 
> front of a train."--"Anna Karenina," retold by Ernest Hemingway (Mike Genz) 
>
>
> TTFN,
>
> Frodeaux B
>