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Re: help
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Jack Savage <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 29 Mar 2002 08:16:08 -0800
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>From: Tim Bray <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: - Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine
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>Subject: Re: help
>Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 12:35:04 -0800
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>At 11:17 PM 27/03/02 -0800, Jack Savage wrote:
>
> >hmmm.... let me see....
> >I know : --
> >how about
> >"Finnegan's Wake" ?
>
>Snicker.  But since you raised Joyce, I am inclined to
>opine that the "Dubliners" collection is as good a set of
>short stories ever published, and "The Dead" just maybe
>the single towering pinnacle of the form (and John Huston
>made a damn fine movie out of it too). -Tim


Agreed, agreed, and agreed ...

and from time to time I would almost go so far
as to say that in "Dubliners": we have the End
of the short-story form; in "Ulysees", the last novel ...

yet, some people keep writing fiction

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