Contemporary Fiction

Ya Sam takoitov at hotmail.com
Thu Sep 14 10:49:09 CDT 2006


How about taking turns? Classic, contemporary, classic, contemporary...

>But on the OTHER hand, speaking as a crate digger,
>there's an awful lot that's been there for years,
>decades, centuries, millenia, that ISN'T canonical but
>worth bringing to the light of day nonetheless.
>Moby-Dick, Bouvard an Pecuchet, The Great Gatsby
>didn't quite hit the first time 'round.  Feminists et
>al. have been esp. good, I don't know, shelf dusters
>...
>
>Still, I feel like I should read War and Peace, finish
>Don Quixote, read and reread no end of "classic,"
>canonical texts before I go.  In the end, it may prove
>to have been all that kept me here ...
>

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