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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ilaine who wrote (45979)	7/18/1999 3:34:00 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I agree with you completely (but I would throw in Anthony Trollope). I like to read about people I would like to know- or at least could socialize with and dissect later. Austen gives us such delicious people- even the nasty ones are not so very nasty that you couldn't have tea with them. And of course if I am going to see a play I am always delighted with the Shakespeare comedies, Oscar Wilde, Shaw etc- I like tragedies too, (Medea is one of my favorites) but I do not like to see them over and over again. That catharsis thing really doesn't work all that well for me. But I agree with JBE (was it you?) that literature is a very personal thing- and our favorites are OUR favorites. Of course Shakespeare was a God (or was several Gods- depending on which literary historian you want to believe- and WHO he or they were makes no dif to me)- so I can't agree with anyone here who says he shouldn't be forced down every adults throat who makes any pretense of being educated - but he should be dosed out in palatable form, and be seen, and heard.