From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V2 #56 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Tuesday, February 5 2002 Volume 02 : Number 056 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] TWotEF.... [Stewart Mason ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 00:47:24 -0700 From: Stewart Mason Subject: Re: [loud-fans] TWotEF.... At 04:35 PM 2/4/02 -0600, Miles Goosens wrote: >At 12:48 AM 2/2/2002 -0700, Stewart Mason wrote: > >But I don't think writing in the style of Richman or Barthelme (or Laurie > >Colwin or...I'm trying to think of some other songwriter who deals in > >quotidian life so thoroughly...RSM, maybe?) is necessarily aiming lower > >than writing in the style of Faulkner or Joyce or Springsteen. > >Maybe "aiming lower" was the wrong choice of words, though it flowed nicely >at the time. I think aiming *smaller* is just as worthy, and can produce >transcendent meaning on a par with those who successfully trade in The Big >Themes. I just don't think that Hemingway automatically ranks lower than >Barthelme because Hemingway is hunting Big Themes, or that "Roadrunner" >automatically beats "Jungleland." That's not what I meant to imply -- I was just saying that I personally tend to prefer the F. Barthelme/L. Colwin/N. Baker approach to the E. Hemingway/W. Faulkner/W. Styron. Stewart ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V2 #56 ******************************