>From: Tim Bray <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: - Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine > <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: help >Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 12:35:04 -0800 > >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 _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com