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"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 Serving the tristate area. Halvard Johnson ================ [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard http://entropyandme.blogspot.com http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com http://www.hamiltonstone.org 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 > 11655 - 72 Avenue NW > Edmonton Ab T6G 0B9 > (780) 436 3320 > http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ > > Latest book: Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy) > http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664 > > Perhaps, after all, > there is no polite way to withdraw > from the privilege of the first person. > > Méira Cook