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From: "Jerry Friedman" <jerry_friedman@yahoo.com>
To: "D. Barton Johnson" <chtodel@COX.NET>
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 9:54 AM
Subject: Re: Literary categories: Neal Stephenson
> --- "D. Barton Johnson" <chtodel@cox.net> wrote:
> > EDMUSING. Literary critics have long organized their field by
> > categories: language, time periods, genre, Romanicism/ Realism,
> > postmodern...etc.
> >
> > With all due respect to my colleagues, I propose still another source of
> > profound insight: teeth & dentistry. The founding examplars are Nabokov
> > and Martin Amis. I can now recommend a third --- Neal Stephenson of
> > CRYPTONOMICON fame. See paperback pages 776-81 (the "chapter entitled
> > "Wisdom"). And then there is Nabokov & Updike.
>
> May I recommend "Help! I am Dr. Morris Goldpepper!" by Avram
> Davidson? Although "profound insight" is perhaps not exactly
> what it offers.
>
> Jerry Friedman
>
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From: "Jerry Friedman" <jerry_friedman@yahoo.com>
To: "D. Barton Johnson" <chtodel@COX.NET>
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 9:54 AM
Subject: Re: Literary categories: Neal Stephenson
> --- "D. Barton Johnson" <chtodel@cox.net> wrote:
> > EDMUSING. Literary critics have long organized their field by
> > categories: language, time periods, genre, Romanicism/ Realism,
> > postmodern...etc.
> >
> > With all due respect to my colleagues, I propose still another source of
> > profound insight: teeth & dentistry. The founding examplars are Nabokov
> > and Martin Amis. I can now recommend a third --- Neal Stephenson of
> > CRYPTONOMICON fame. See paperback pages 776-81 (the "chapter entitled
> > "Wisdom"). And then there is Nabokov & Updike.
>
> May I recommend "Help! I am Dr. Morris Goldpepper!" by Avram
> Davidson? Although "profound insight" is perhaps not exactly
> what it offers.
>
> Jerry Friedman
>
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> SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month!
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