NP but John Fowles

[Ian Livingston]

My Pa read The Magus and recommended it to me somewhere back around
80. I never got around to it, as I was into the American labor
struggles at the time and entered into my Marxist phase. Read nothing
but Marx, Engels, and pre- and post-Marx for a while there. Then
dropped into school for a few years, before dropping out again.

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 7:36 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> esp/ The Magus. Worth reading, any p-lister?  As fiction.
>
> My preconceptions: read The Aristos years ago, was unimpressed. I've come to
> like some of his
> expressed ideas in non-fcition stuff....on Nature, on Love (like so many),
> on existential loneliness, on ecology but
> I wonder if the good ideas are embodied in good fiction or is the fiction
> weighted down by unembodied ideas.
> All that talk and erudition I know is in The Magus?  Closer to Dostoevsky or
> Pynchon than, say....some forogttten
> fictioneer of good ideas with little real aesthetic embodiment?
>
>  Never tried a work of fiction of his, escept one okay story in The Ebony
> Tower.....
>



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"Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all
creeds the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the
trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments
of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates
than the simplest urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant