I have to narrow it down to three, it's the best I can do.
John the Apostle
Saul of Tarsus
Ken Kesey
no particular order.
Oh, and I'd love to discuss Doors Of Perception with Aldous Huxley
Why, because to understand it you have to be on acid, Bear?
Williamhenry--the whole time Bill Clinton was President I told my Faulkner-loving friends that the key to understanding Clinton was that he was a Snopes at heart. So maybe Faulkner wouldn't need too much of a briefing on the New South, since his characters seem to be alive and well...
Not at all max, but it certainly is a book which really nails down the psychedelic experience as a quasi religious experience, IMO.
I can read it and almost get the feeling I'm tripping, something I haven't done in years.
I read it before I ever tripped and understood it, but after I had tripped the book had special meaning to me.
The psychedelic experience is no more quasireligious than great sex is.
I agree, but it sure can feel that way, and Huxley's book nails it.
PS If sex is not a religious experience to you, then you've never had any really good sex.
Bear, I agree. But I think women may worship in a different church than men do!
George Eliot, and I would love to talk to her about women writers...Primo Levi would be my second favorite...I would love to discuss the wonderful "Periodic Table."
Knowing George Eliot's wide-ranging intellect and her determination not to be categorized as a "woman writer" in her own lifetime, I seriously doubt she would want to discuss woman writers with you. You'd do better to ask her about philosophy, history, Judaism, or theology--four of her primary interests.
Oh, no, I disagree, I think George Eliot would get into a discussion on the matter, however trenchant and short the exchange would be. I wouldn't mind being a fly on the wall for that.
Certainly I would like to discuss all those areas with her Larry, but I would like to know what she thinks of women in literature today. I have read several biographies of her life, and admire her greatly.
Vietnamnurse, did you know your avatar is a famous photograph of a little Afghani girl, with gorgeous eyes, taken about the time the Taliban took over the country?
They went back to her villiage about a year ago and found her. She was about 20, but looked forty or fifty. She still had the eyes though.
Here's a link about the story
I have no doubt that George Eliot could speak brilliantly on any topic proposed, including Zip-Lock bags. All I meant was that she resisited being typed as a "woman writer" in her lifetime and might not want to be confined by gender in discussing writers now.
cjhsa, yes, she does, and we have been discussing it on another topic, but, dangit, I can't remember the title, except that it is under Pets.
I would like to have met the late David Bloom of NBC News to hear what he really thought about the current war in Iraq.
Bloom was a fine newswriter and reporter.
I am sure David Bloom would have parroted the Establishment line on this war, like most reporters. None of them seem to have an original thought in their blow-dried heads.
Larry<
Even for you, you have slithered to a new low in your above comments about David Bloom. Whatever line Mr. Bloom may have parroted and the nuances of his hairstyle are now immaterial because he is dead. He died an untimely death from a pulmonary embolism at age 39. His death was unrelated to the current war which he was covering for NBC News.
Let's get Mr. Bloom's remains into their final resting place before snots such as you begin to drool. Your post is inhumane, showing disrespect to Mr. Bloom's memory, his surviving wife and his two young daughters.
I usually try to let your constant bitchiness fly over my head. But this time, a person is dead -- a real human being -- and he can no longer defend himself from effete jerks such as you.
Larry, you are a spoiled brat who is about as shallow as a raindrop. I am certain others on A2k get tired, extremely tired, of your never-ending barrage of unkindness.[/i]
I apologize if my comment about David Bloom offended anyone. It was not meant to attack him so much as to critique the media's uncritical adulation of what I consider to be an obscene, illegal war in Iraq. I was not familiar with either Bloom or his work so I meant no disrepsect to him personally.
