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russell dame (russell@mail.ttlc.net)
Sat, 06 Mar 1999 23:44:16 -0500 (EST)
To the translator: the Dostoyevsky quote is from Father Zossima, Brothers Karamazov, Part Two, Book Six:The Russian Monk, 3 From the Discourses of Father Zossima, (i)Of Hell and Hell Fire, a Mystical Discourse.
What uncollected JDS story is it that has a charcter that is going to, paraphrasing, spend the afternoon with Alyosha and Father Zossima?
Awhile back, JDS and Hemingway came up. Wasn't the whole Clay/cat thing in Esme based upon a similar real-life incident with Hemingway and a chicken?
Anyone else get annoyed when Ranchan botches nuts-and-bolts Glass trivia in the otherwise interesting The Glass Family: An Adventure in Vedanta?
Who do you think has the better vault, Salinger or Neil Young?
What did JDS have against Kerouac?
DeDaumier, garbage or brilliant? I've read both takes and have always been on the fence myself.
Is whoever wrote it completely sure that JDS had a breakdown during WWII? To what extent?
Salinger turned down the UVA writer in residence that Faulkner eventually took, right?
Finally, whoever counteracted the Dostoyevsky rape shocker with the Wm Blake/marital bliss image was right on, credit where credit is due. That has always been a favorite image of mine and you seem like a breathtakingly level-headed girl. They were reading Paradise Lost, correct?
R