BARD@MIT-XX.ARPA (09/04/85)
From: Bard Bloom <BARD@MIT-XX.ARPA> > From: hyper!brust@topaz.rutgers.edu (Steven Brust) > One test of literature that I'm particularly fond of is: how long is > the author remembered? This isn't one hundred percent; not matter > how hard I try I cannot convince myself that Cooper was writing > great literature. BUT--what writer who is remembered and, more, > STILL READ after a hundred years failed to write stories or books > that were fun to read? > Just to be obnoxious, the author of Pilgrim's Progress (Bunyan? If I can't get his name right, my claim's a lot weaker). I've never heard of anyone who liked Pilgrim's Progress, and I hang around English professors a lot. Most people don't read it voluntarily, though. Pax VAXque vobiscum, Bard -------
pete@stc.UUCP (Peter Kendell) (09/06/85)
Summary: Expires: Sender: Followup-To: Distribution: Keywords: Xpath: stc stc-b stc-a In article <3523@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> BARD@MIT-XX.ARPA writes: >Just to be obnoxious, the author of Pilgrim's Progress (Bunyan? If I can't >get his name right, my claim's a lot weaker). I've never heard of anyone >who liked Pilgrim's Progress, and I hang around English professors a lot. > >Most people don't read it voluntarily, though. > a) Yes, Bunyan's right. b) I did. But I'm not an English professor. -- Peter Kendell <pete@stc.UUCP> ...mcvax!ukc!stc!pete 'Give it all you can, It's much better than, The prefabricated concrete coal bunker!' Who ? When? Answers on a postcard or stuck-down envelope.