Bellow
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MalignD at aol.com
Wed Aug 2 16:28:26 CDT 2006
<< "The cathedral at Chartres is a remarkable piece of architecture, but if
it were built today, it would be embarrassing -- unless it were done
tongue-in-cheek, deliberately, as an ironic comment." " >>
Barth has made this point often, usually in defense or reference to The
Sotweed Factor, which he said he wrote in part because he wanted to write something
as plotty and convoluted as Fielding.
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