Thursday, September 18, 2008

Needing to get out more ...

... NYPL: James Wood & Daniel Mendelsohn. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

I think this a very finely reported piece. Sure, Ed has his point of view, but he uses it to give a pretty damn good impression of the event, I think. I wonder, by the way, if James Wood has read Kierkegaard's Purity of Heart Is to Will One Thing. It's rather a harrowing book.
Regarding Mendelsohn: What exactly is wrong with 30 million people telling us what they think of Moby Dick? And what's wrong with everybody being able to publish - as opposed to only those people some other people think are worthy to be published? Let the reader decide - oh, there aren't any readers. Only 30 million people with opinions about Moby Dick. I must be missing something.

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