Book of the month quote?

>From Sonny's page apparently I saw this quote from the Book of the Month club:
"I enjoyed the day but it isn't something I'd ever want to do again. I got
very oracular and literary. I found myself labelling all the writers I
respect...A writer, when he's asked to discuss his craft, ought to get up and
call out in a loud voice just the names of the writers he loves. I love Kafka,
Flaubert, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Proust, O'Casey, Rilke, Lorca, Keats,
Rimbaud, Burns, E.Bronte, Jane Austen, Henry James, Blake, Coleridge. I won't
name any living writers. I don't think it's right."
I am particularly interested in JDS's not thinking it is right to name his
favorite living writers. Why is this? He is merely making a joke or does he
find flattery rude? Or maybe my being young I have missed something rather
obvious. Would naming someone make that person more self-conscious or does it
have to do with someone not yet having thought they reached their peak or
perfection and somehow injuring them and/or their craft by naming them. Sorry
if this is a bit too obscure of a thread to start. Nonetheless, I would like
to hear everyone's thoughts on this. Hopefully we can all discuss something
without insulting each other. We are all bananafish.
-Levi

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Received on Wed Dec 4 23:49:25 2002