Elite Quiz [was Re: melancholy, Mason, Lolita]
cathy ramirez
cathyramirez69 at yahoo.com
Tue Oct 1 10:45:49 CDT 2002
--- Keith McMullen <keithsz at concentric.net> wrote:
> Select four.
>
> A good reader should:
>
> (1) ...belong to a book club.
Definitely.
> (2) ...identify with the hero or heroine.
No
> (3) ...concentrate on the socio-economic angle.
no
> (4) ...prefer a story with action and dialogue to
> one with none.
Yup
> (5) ...have highly developed sphincters.
Natually. And do an hundered keegles a day to
stengthen it, particularly if one is pregnant or has
recently given birth.
> (6) ...be a budding author.
> (7) ...have imagination.
> (8) ...have memory.
> (9) ...have a dictionary.
and use it
> (10) ...have some artistic sense.
>
> --from 'Good Readers and Good Writers' by
> Nabokov
> (with one choice changed for the P-list).
>
>
>
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