desert island books

[kelber at mindspring.com]

The Anatomy of Melancholy -- which I haven't read, but plan to, as soon as I can figure out where in my house the book (single-volume, so probably condensed) is hiding.

Laura

Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

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