An Interview with Terry Eagleton

[alice wellintown]

And FN is god exercise, but Marx is for graduate students who want to
earn their stripes.

On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 7:45 AM, alice wellintown
<alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
> But how Dickens tells, and shows, is so wonderful, so fantastic, and
> to ignore this, as Nabokov warns good readers, and to read with some
> front-loaded ideas about what Dickens says, is unkind, as Nab says, to
> writers, but also to readers or to thise who may become good readers.
>
> Dickens is a good exercise for good readers. Pynchon is not. Pynchon
> is for Pyn-heads.