>From my vague recollection of bits of texts read many decades ago when I
still used to read fiction, and bits of material quoted recently
elsewhere, I think it should be considered illegal to use the two words
Chekhov and Pinter in the same paragraph. Faulkner, Hemmingway,
Fitzgerald... Steinbeck? whatever. Now that the cold war is over, can we
drop the pretence? Huh? Please? What next? Naipaul. Kids these days!!!
Hell, old Dubya is reading Camus!
Of course that's all just my opinion, not to be confused with flame bait ;-) But speaking of "also-rans" -- who exactly are Harold Pinter and Patrick White, again? The names ring distant bells... ah yes... the anti-war dude. Good guy.
--ravi
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