12-10-2017, 09:36 PM
(12-10-2017, 07:58 PM)Busker Wrote: Dickinson (did you mean Dickens) isn’t read by anyone I know. I mean, he’s taught in schools and all but that’s about it. I think the greatest American writer today is Suzan Mazur. Because of content, not form. She’s written an expose of the Evolution Industry that every thinking person should read. Not that it’ll be taught in liberal schools, of course.I wasn't talking about novels, even if that's what the discussion's all about -- I was more talking about how one of the participants was being particularly dismissive about American culture as a whole, which I defend in part because I am enthralled by it, in part because his dismissal in essence felt like an avenue for the sort of imperialism I despise. So no, I did not mean Dickens: I meant the great Emily Dickinson. Also, "the Evolution Industry"? "liberal schools"? That sounds like the sort of conspiratorial talk I would normally scoff at, especially since biology's the field I'm getting into...