Re: food for thought

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At 5:10 PM +0000 on 2/21/99, you wrote:

>     'It has been the fate of the arts from the beginning of time
>     to be spoken about mainly by articulate failures.'
>
>     It's a quotation from John le Carre which I've just read in
>     the Sunday Times (London) Books section.
>
>     Hard to dispute that one, huh?

I'm sure John Updike and Lorrie Moore and Madison Smartt Bell would,
perhaps, find that idea, while clever, a little too glib for its own
good....  They all manage to write fiction and ABOUT fiction quite well.

--tim (who has negative days but refuses to be considered an "articulate
failure"!)

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