desert island books

[Steven Koteff]

Tolstoy comes to mind right away, but then again I think you might want
less...realism? Even if it is realism with occasional spiritual epochs.

Kafka for the aphorisms alone, not to mention everything else. Maybe *The
Castle *would be the perfect text, or maybe it'd be a horrible constant
joke.

I've been reading *The Hero with a Thousand Faces *and it seems that,
removed from all civilization, you might want something that speaks more to
the mythic structure beneath even great literature. Maybe you want
Freud/Jung, or maybe Ovid or something.

Is this spoiling the exercise? Is the question as simple as which three
writers have the richest bodies of work?

I guess I'd want the option of newspaper delivery, but also would want the
option to refuse it until/unless I decided I wanted it again. Not knowing
what was happening in the world might eventually be a privilege.

On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 10:39 AM, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I was more thinking along the line, salivating over all these glossy
> pictures of things I cannot buy.
>
> Because I know that feeling all too well.
>
>
>
> 2016-01-18 17:34 GMT+01:00 Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>:
>
>> Is this Karl Kraus?
>>
>> I would want to know what in the world WAS HAPPENING. Solipsism or even
>> solipsism with great writers---that way
>> madness might lie.
>> Don't you want something to exercise your argumentative skills, even
>> alone and on paper?
>>
>> Okay all, drop that question since it is the splinter in the foot and
>> just go on about Great Writers.
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 11:27 AM, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> If you want a newspaper (or magazine) delivered to a desert island you
>>> are beyond rescue anyway.
>>>
>>> 2016-01-18 17:12 GMT+01:00 Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>> Just my utopian question.
>>>>
>>>>  They are UNABLE to rescue you no matter
>>>> what.
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 11:04 AM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> A desert island with newspaper delivery? Where do I sign up?
>>>>>
>>>>> Www.innergroovemusic.com
>>>>>
>>>>> > On Jan 18, 2016, at 7:04 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Okay, condemned to live on a desert island until
>>>>> > the end of days, yours at least.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > You are allowed the
>>>>> > Collected Works of three writers, one of them being Pynchon,
>>>>> > we  know, right?
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Another would be Shakespeare, right, because...he is The Best
>>>>> > in English? (You can, esp if your native tongue is not English,
>>>>> substitute
>>>>> > another great writer here. Even if English is.)
>>>>> >
>>>>> > The third is........??
>>>>> >
>>>>> > And why?
>>>>> >
>>>>> > And which newpaper or magazine would you have delivered--or would
>>>>> you?
>>>>> > -
>>>>> > Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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