tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959297.post113735498471499754..comments2024-03-21T07:37:30.475-04:00Comments on Light reading: David Lodge has an interesting little pieceJenny Davidsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02295436498255927522noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959297.post-1137442523486667512006-01-16T15:15:00.000-05:002006-01-16T15:15:00.000-05:00My e-mail is jmd204 at columbia dot edu, and you'r...My e-mail is jmd204 at columbia dot edu, and you're very welcome to write to me directly if you prefer! I don't have it up here just b/c of evil spam...Jenny Davidsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02295436498255927522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959297.post-1137440073177101282006-01-16T14:34:00.000-05:002006-01-16T14:34:00.000-05:00I found the Lodge piece (I read it in the paper Ti...I found the Lodge piece (I read it in the paper Times!) compelling. I have read many of Lodge's books and enjoyed most of them, but only one of Bradbury's, and struggled though it at that. The article by Lodge made me laugh out loud, it seems as if Bradbury had more fun writing than his readers may have done reading him -- but perhaps he did not write his "proper" novels by the same method ;-)Maxine Clarkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06628509319992204770noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959297.post-1137364046916433802006-01-15T17:27:00.000-05:002006-01-15T17:27:00.000-05:00This chimes in with Moretti (Ch 3), substituting N...This chimes in with Moretti (Ch 3), substituting Nabokov for Conan Doyle. <BR/><BR/>I also liked this part: Edith Wharton, writing in her memoirs of her friendship with Henry James, says, “the real marriage of true minds is for any two people to possess a sense of humour or irony pitched in exactly the same key, so that their joint glances at any subject cross like interarching searchlights”.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com