Clancys books as college texts?
Date: 2003-04-07 14:13:38 PST Robert Williams: Anything widely read by the “common man” is considered mere fodder now for Joe Six-Pack kicked back in his single-wide mobile home. Sad, but true. Its a mistake for me to post on this, but I am compelled to remind you literary types that Bill Shakespeare wrote not for the nobility, but for the peons in the pit. It has not hurt his reputation, though. Oliver Goldsmith in The Vicar of Wakefield liberally trashed Shakespeare. I remember reading that book in college, leaning back, lighting a cigarette and asking myself, Who the hell is Oliver Goldsmith? There was once a critic who clobbered Moby Dick, explaining in great detail why it would not be remembered. The critic is only remembered for blowing the call. Short version, if critics knew literature as well as they claim to, theyd not be critiquing it. The money is a lot better doing what I do. Trust me. I do not take my words for Holy Writ. A simple reason: my work is NOT Holy Writ. I am in
