From steven@sizcol1.u-shizuoka-ken.ac.jp Wed Mar 8 21:40:27 2000 Received: from mxu3.u.washington.edu (mxu3.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.7]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id VAA10682 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 21:40:26 -0800 Received: from ham.t.u-shizuoka-ken.ac.jp (sizcol.u-shizuoka-ken.ac.jp [133.33.105.11]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id VAA23490 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 21:40:24 -0800 Received: from steven ([133.33.106.107]) by ham.t.u-shizuoka-ken.ac.jp (8.9.3/3.7W-98122215) with ESMTP id OAA11063 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2000 14:40:39 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <200003090540.OAA11063@ham.t.u-shizuoka-ken.ac.jp> From: "Steven J. Willett" To: classics@u.washington.edu Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 14:49:38 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: beautiful language Reply-to: steven@sizcol1.u-shizuoka-ken.ac.jp In-reply-to: <4.1.20000308204951.0361dd90@pop.ben2.ucla.edu> References: <200003080653.PAA08022@ham.t.u-shizuoka-ken.ac.jp> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12b) On 8 Mar 00, at 20:52, Jack Kolb wrote: > So much for your opinion of literature, Willett. This shows that whoever > taught you Ulysses (yourself?) spoiled it for you. Ulysses is the great > humane epic of this century. Your glibness betrays you: you haven't read > the book: you've just read the commentary. Spare me the wrath of the gored idolaters. I've read the thing more than once, and indeed, all of Joyce several times--for all that Kolb would know. And taught him, too, quite successfully without letting my personal opinions intrude. Negative opinions about literary works are not tantamount to slanders that necessitate a convulsion of--let me say quite asinine--aesthetic righteousness. ========================================== Steven J. Willett University of Shizuoka, Hamamatsu Campus 2-3 Nunohashi 3-chome Hamamatsu City, Japan 432-8012 Voice: (53) 457-4514; Fax: (53) 457-4514 Japan email: steven@sizcol1.u-shizuoka-ken.ac.jp US email: sjwillett@earthlink.net .