Date:         Thu, 19 Nov 1998 19:18:10 -0500
From: hassen <hassen@SNIP.NET>
Subject:      [WRITERS] INT: The eMJay award interviews, par four (FORE!)

>>Anyway -- what three books would you choose to spend a year with?<<

smiles aglore

does durrell's *revolt of aphrodite* (choice a) count as 1 or 2? let's say
1. i've only read one of them & would like i think to spend more time with
it & the other - not that i think it's the *best ever* tho' hm. but because
it's currently current in what i'm currently of & such. no, maybe i'd do the
*alexandria quartet* (b) again because of dense lavishness & somehow, in
spite of all perversions of the human experience, it manages to stay on the
bright side of the mood spectrum.

some huge volume on all known life forms (c). or on physics (d). shit.

collected works of gogol (e) maybe for perspective maintenence or
maintenence of perspective.
no durrell might provide that.
anth. of chinese poetry(f)?
cortazar (g) hm.

!!!!!i know!

oed!!! (h)

okay:
final selection:
h - oed
b - alexandria quartet (unless this counts as four - then it's g- collection
of cortazar)
c - huge volume on living organisms

thanks for asking. now i'm prepared, though i'm not exactly sure i should
be.

hassen