Re: Book of the month quote?

i think sonny pretty much answers it.

i might add that salinger made an error when he
included o'casey (he was still living; didn't die
until the early '60s).

i find it interesting that f. scott fitzgerald did
*not* make the list of loved ones.

kim

--- Sundeep Dougal <sundeep@outlookindia.com> wrote:
> > I am particularly interested in JDS's not thinking
> it is right to name his
> > favorite living writers. Why is this?
>
> One's choice is always limited by what one has read,
> and of course one may
> not have read enough of the contemporaries, and so
> it's safer to stick to
> the dead. More importantly, naming favourites among
> living writers runs the
> risk of those not included (particularly if they
> happen to be acquaintences
> etc) being, shall we say, not charitably disposed --
> something which doesn't
> happen among those dead, or even if it does, doesn't
> really manifest itself
> in scathing reviews etc.
>
> Sonny
>
> A bit of derision, as Nash may have said, is
> oh-so-much fun.
>
>
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