<< Are we still talking novelists, or ...? Having now seen Homer, Chaucer ... one thing is, Joyce wrote only three of 'em, Cervantes, what, just the one? Melville, Pynchon, Flaubert, not so many, either. Dostoevsky, Tolstoy. Whereas Balzac, Dickens, James >> Whereas Spillane, Asimov, Alger ...