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In a message dated 4/26/03 5:33:06 AM, sorcha-aisling@... writes:

<< >>> ~Kelly, NOT a Hemingway fan!<<<


<<I thought I was the only one! >>

Gags me.

I think a lot of the "famous" authors of the late 19th and early 20th century
are famous just because it was hard to get published and not so many people
bothered to try. I could certainly be wrong, but a lot of "modern
literature" seems thin and sloppy to me.

There are probably more really great writings rejected every month these days
than were published in the 19th century altogether.

Looking back at the 20th century from this perspective (2003, ha!) I would
enshrine Kahlil Gibran and Kurt Vonnegut. Hermann Hesse, maybe. Proves
nothing except I'm some kind of hippie. But if I were teaching a literature
class, it would also be north America, Europe and the Middle East. Ah. I
feel virtue just oozing up around me. Oh wait. Let's call it English,
German and Arabic. That will make more parts of the world feel represented.
They're all Christian, so that spoils my virtue some, but ethnocentricity is
just one of those things we'll write off to "that's the way the 20th century
was, before the current enlightenment."

Sandra