8159, RE: What is meant by Posted by nighttripper, Thu Jul-11-02 02:54 AM
>dude, WHY is education subsidized in europe more than in it >is in the US? it didn't just "happen." it's about what >different places *value*. the US just doesn't value equity >or education as much. >
Well, I never really deny that. Notice that I didn't reply to your post #77. My point in that particular exchange with you was related to the only thing I've been defending here, ie that attitudes toward education and religion in European countries weren't exactly uniform. I can agree with you, though, overall education is more valued here.
>i disagree completely and VOCIFEROUSLY. what interesting >american literature compare to what uninteresting european >literature? not producing anything worthwhile since proust? >primo levi, sartre and john banville, for three random >examples. > >my life would be a barren desert if i didn't have access to >English papers, poets, magazines, books etc. i don't read >fiction much, but there is simply no question that there >have been many more important and excellent British poets >than American ones. >
Relax. My statement was definitely too broad, because unlike you, I'm mostly interested in fiction. I haven't read Levi, nor Banville. I've read some of Sartre, though, and he is extremely overrated.
Just for fun, I decided to think of two random lists of American and French 20th century novelists (Proust is not 20th century to me):
Dos Passos Faulkner Norman Mailer Dashiell Hamett Chester Himes Raymond Chandler Ralph Ellison James Ellroy Jim Harrison Jerome Charyn Richard Ford Saul Bellow Philip Roth
vs
Aragon (who I like a little) Mauriac Camus (...) Marguerite Duras (I'm having trouble keeping composure while writing this...) Philippe Djian (mwahahaha...)
>this is a country where robert hass became poet laureate and >i have rest my case. >
hmmm, since when do we give a fuck about laureates? it's like saying hip hop isn't worth shit because SisQo won a grammy in the category...
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