"I'll never read Bukowski"? What's that about?
These maps are good reminders that the constellations
we see overhead exist only from our limited pov.
Hal
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On Aug 3, 2006, at 10:15 AM, Douglas Barbour wrote:
> Good question, Martin.
>
> Looking at some of those maps, I quickly found that they mapped
> only a certain reader's nexuses, but not mine. Or rather only part
> of the time (or map).
>
> I'll never read Bukowski, & certainly not when thinking Keats.
>
> And some of the connections among the SF writers made no sense to
> me, but are certainly possible for other readers....
>
> So, it's good fun, but only to offer one the opportunity to check
> out what's missing or out of place in one's own map.
>
> Doug
> On 3-Aug-06, at 6:37 AM, MJ Walker wrote:
>
>> So people who read Donne also read: Armistead Maupin, Pauline
>> Réage, Elmore Leonard, Edgar Rice Burroughs (caught me out there)
>> & John Rawls (!!??), not to mention Donald E.Westlake & Chuck
>> Palahniuk - who appears so frequently, whoever you choose, that I
>> think he financed the whole thing on the principle of subliminal
>> suggestion (his name is always on the periphery). Apparently
>> readers of Donne don't like other poetry, but readers of Homer
>> also read L.Ron Hubbard; while Heidegger readers shun Hölderlin,
>> they love Sterne & Damon Runyon, not to mention Albert Cammus
>> (sic). Who are these freaks (meaning both the devisers of this
>> site and the readers they interviewed )?
> Douglas Barbour
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> Perhaps, after all,
> there is no polite way to withdraw
> from the privilege of the first person.
>
> Méira Cook
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