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