> I ploughed
> through a collected Sidney, and a few selected, and damned if I can
> remember a single quote.
With how sad steps, oh moon, thou mounts the skies.
> I seem to recall someone arguing on this list that Melville was
> better than Conrad, and class was part of that being better.
Melville was surely better than Conrad -- or, more specifically, _Moby Dick_
is a better novel than _Nostromomo_.
Though dunno how class figures.
Counter-intuitively, the Polish aristo lacked a sense of irony that the Yank
possessed.
R.
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