08-05-2018, 01:02 AM
What's the line in Camus, Shem would know, where he says something about how a man published a book and then killed himself, thinking it would make him immortal, but the book was judged meritless.
I was at a Barnes & Noble in Greensboro when some hot young thing, a college girl working there, said out loud, in a let me have your attention voice, that Philip Roth was dead. I went to my friend's mom's house to use the Internet, because I love me some death, and watched an interview done that day on the BBC with his ex-wife Claire Bloom, and the interviewer said something like, Do you think the young generation of readers today will condemn Roth's writings as the rantings of a sexist white man? And somebody said, that question is irrelevant, the man created art. -- I think he was right.
I was at a Barnes & Noble in Greensboro when some hot young thing, a college girl working there, said out loud, in a let me have your attention voice, that Philip Roth was dead. I went to my friend's mom's house to use the Internet, because I love me some death, and watched an interview done that day on the BBC with his ex-wife Claire Bloom, and the interviewer said something like, Do you think the young generation of readers today will condemn Roth's writings as the rantings of a sexist white man? And somebody said, that question is irrelevant, the man created art. -- I think he was right.