You sure you're not a fan?
We disagree about the poems. As to the stories, hey, mostly not
masterpieces, but mostly way better than O. Henry. I've never seen the
paintings.
More interesting for discussion than our (partial) disagreement is the
change in opinion, and the passion behind it, as evidenced here,
remembering that the passion on the other side was if anything stronger
once upon a time. He was considered by many one of the seminal (if I can
use the word) figures, tho it now seems obvious that he barely deserves a
seat at the table with contemporaries like Conrad, Joyce, Woolf, Forster, Ford.
Mark
At 05:03 PM 12/16/2005, you wrote:
>>Complete agreement about the novels. Some of the short stories, and the
>>poems, stand up considerably better.
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> [SNIP]
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>>Mark
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>I don't get this, Mark -- for all of me, the only thing that stands up to
>rereading is +The Rainbow+. (+Women in Love+ is a fascist joke.) The
>short stories are clever, but then so was O. Henry (whom I'd rather
>reread). As for the poems -- best that can be said for them is that they suck.
>
> As for, dear god, DHL's paintings ...
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> :-(
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> Robin
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>(not a DHL fan)
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