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To: nihil who wrote (58402)	2/3/2001 2:03:25 PM
From: nihil	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Oh, I understand now. The great authors are Wm Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers and that crowd. It's a matter of taste, of course, but surely you recognize that the postwar Southern authors were pulling their reports on suffering out of a South that was wrecked by the madness of the fireeaters. It is astounding to me that Faulkner (whom I met) was never able to bring himself to live in civilized society. He lived in Oxford, but never had anything to do with the University (which IMO was not that bad). When he associated with real people -- during WWI for instance -- he wrote some funny stories. That one about the torpedo boats, for instance. When he was imprisoned in his fantasies of Yoknapatawpha County, he wrote crap. Can you name a single book worth reading written before the civil war by a Southerner?