1) Congratulations John. I hope you can enlighten the folks of your state

2) Yablon, I know what you mean. It snowed on me twice today on me bike, this after laying out the mulch over the weekend so the newly freed flowers can freeze.

3) Olga, I wasn't saying "no" to your birthday, but to you friend, and that was a total joke. I am all for anything that includes a girl. The younger the better (ha).

Brian, to what ideas and philosophies are you alluding to? I haven't read the book, but since you whet our whistles, provide us with clues.

Hey, I just finished reading this literary criticism for The Poisonwood Bible by some dude who says that a lot of contemporary writing centers around Calamities, and that because modern (Western) readers don’t have to actually deal with these sort of problems, the reader's ignorance places the piece above criticism. Many modern political writers manage to not step on anyone's toes because they write about starving children in the 1950's and abusive fathers. No one can criticize these writers because they write about things that everyone agrees upon, and it sucks the substance out the stories. Think about it, all the novels you love are hated by someone, but a lot of these new novels are good for nothing by airplane reading.

posted by Adrian   [6:27 PM]

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