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To: Dayuhan who wrote (31572)	2/22/1999 7:29:00 PM
From: Edwarda	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

What a pure joy to find someone else who knows and loves "Plum" Wodehouse as I do! Did you see last Sunday's New York Times where Safire noted the resurgence of "gruntled" in a Jeeves book? A lot of people favor the Uncle Dynamite ones, but my heart belongs to Bertie and Jeeves. BTW, did you ever read the story, "The Old Reliable"? And avoid the golf stories; they put golfers to sleep.

To: Dayuhan who wrote (31572)	2/23/1999 1:20:00 AM
From: Kid Rock	Respond to of 108807

Jorge Luis Borges, who could say more in 6 pages than many authors can in 600. But what could he do in 50 words?

To: Dayuhan who wrote (31572)	2/23/1999 4:33:00 AM
From: nihil	Respond to of 108807

H.H. Munro (Saki) is the perfect writer of very short stories, created a vapid world that will never die. "The Open Window" is the most perfect shocker -- and in almost the same period, the Lucia novels by the brother of the Archibishop -- name slips -- utterly pointless -- much better than the darling PBS films. I can read Sherlock Holmes another hundred times. But Thurber's Carnival is a great collection, including the great short story Short and Happy life of Walter Mitty (the movie is worthless, except Danny Kaye is always worth studying and laughing at.) Edgar Snow's The Masters is a fine academic novel, and Strictly Academic by Stringfellow Barr and Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim still convulses me, and was there a better children's book than Kim, or Just-so-stories, or Jungle Book by Rudyard Kiplng, and of the great heroic books of adventure, South! by Shackelton, and Prescott's Mexico and Peru, and the Bounty trilogy and Amundsen's and Nansen's books. And African Game Trails by Teddy Roosevelt. Motley's Rise of the Dutch Republic and Gibbon, and 1066 and All That (By Seller and Yeatman), and Plutarch's Lives. I don't know many girl's books but I can read my children's books -- what's left of them -- an hundred times or more .. and I think I will get started now. But I'm not kidding about your writing. Please tell everyone about what is everyday stuff to you in that mass of creaking humanity -- you've read S. Maugham's short stories of "The Orient" and "The Ugly American." how about some things more than vignette's that you've given us. Talk to some teenagers about their hopes and plans ...