Western literature in decline

[David Casseres]

I find that I need only read the first sentence:

"Surveying with one glance the current state of western
literature--and by literature, I mean novels, poems and plays, but
also the traditional nonfiction modalities like the literary essay and
the great work of philosophy--compared to what it looked like in, say,
the first half of the twentieth century, what strikes one is an
appalling decline in overall quality."

Asshole.

On 10/25/06, Steven <mcquaryq at comcast.net> wrote:
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>  What a tedious ass.  There's always someone like this (a critic) around to
> explain why something can't be done.  Good thing there's never a shortage of
> real artists willing to risk their own personal capital to say something
> new.  And it's queer how the critic's limitations are so nakedly
> revealed...you'd think that alone would give the hint to shut up.
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>  What in God's four-lettered name gave this yahoo the idea that GR has a
> relation to Ulysses?
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> On Oct 24, 2006, at 8:16 PM, Ya Sam wrote:
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>  at best, you can only hope to achieve a vague approximation, like Thomas
> Pynchon did with Gravity's Rainbow --his agon with Joyce-
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> Steven
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