desert island books

[Mark Kohut]

No, the question is as open-ended as you answered it...beyond my Great
Literature zero degree assumptions. I cannot, as defined, think of ANY
non-fiction writer I would want. Just the endlessly best great writers.
I'll add my third choice if enough people play.
(what a manipulative prick, eh? and who cares what would be his third
anyway?)

On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 11:57 AM, Steven Koteff <steviekoteff at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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