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From: "Alexander Drescher" <bunsan@direcway.com>
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> In these times when we can doubt the possibility of inherent goodness,
let us give thanks to those composers, painters, writers who left us
enjoyable, worthwhile legacies; and leave "worthwhile" undefined. It is
too unfortunate that critics try to chop off some of our pleasure, consign
artists of varied temperaments to their special waste baskets.
> What is the point? Do we enjoy delightful mastery more if we concur with
an author/critic's tastes, less if we fail to? [End of tirade]
> Now, a cheer for our influental American, Ambivalent Faulkner!
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> -Sandy Drescher
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> > From: "Stringer-Hye, Suellen" <suellen.stringer-hye@vanderbilt.edu>
> > To: "Vladimir Nabokov Forum" <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> > Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 7:44 AM
> > Subject: Re: Fw: Fw: Fw: Martin Amis on Bellow , VN, et al
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> >> Yes but he forgot Marvelous Melville!
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From: "Alexander Drescher" <bunsan@direcway.com>
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> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (23
lines) ------------------
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> In these times when we can doubt the possibility of inherent goodness,
let us give thanks to those composers, painters, writers who left us
enjoyable, worthwhile legacies; and leave "worthwhile" undefined. It is
too unfortunate that critics try to chop off some of our pleasure, consign
artists of varied temperaments to their special waste baskets.
> What is the point? Do we enjoy delightful mastery more if we concur with
an author/critic's tastes, less if we fail to? [End of tirade]
> Now, a cheer for our influental American, Ambivalent Faulkner!
>
> -Sandy Drescher
> ..
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Stringer-Hye, Suellen" <suellen.stringer-hye@vanderbilt.edu>
> > To: "Vladimir Nabokov Forum" <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> > Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 7:44 AM
> > Subject: Re: Fw: Fw: Fw: Martin Amis on Bellow , VN, et al
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> >> Yes but he forgot Marvelous Melville!
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