An Interview with Terry Eagleton

[alice wellintown]

And hegel, well, like Marx, only graduate students carry his books about.

On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 7:46 AM, alice wellintown
<alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.