Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 17:58:06 -0500
From: "George Y. Trail" <gtrail-AT-UH.EDU>
Subject: Re: PLC: Literary Saints


You've always agreed with me. It was just sometimes you didn't know you
agreed with me, and in some cases you still don't.  But consider this,
re you last post. To write is to act.  To speak is to act. Your "sticks
and stones" thing won't wash. What are younger people for if not to
contradict their elders.  See _The Importance of Being Earnest_.

zatavu-AT-excite.com wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 16 Aug 2000 14:25:36 -0500, phillitcrit-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
> wrote:
> 
> >  To choose any single work as "an adequate basis for conducting one's
> >  life" would seem to me to be a profound mistake. The work offers a
> >  laboratory, a trying out of a set of ideas, an embodyment of them which
> >  allows them to be looked at, walked around, discussed. What says _the
> >  Picture of Dorian Gray_ if it is not "and the greatest of these is
> >  charity."
> 
> George! WHen did you and I start agreeing with each other? So far everything
> in this thread either has you agreeing with me or I agree with you on it.
> :-) THe comments on Naked Lunch, Snow White and The Picture of DOrian Gray
> are right on.
> 
> Troy Camplin
> 
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