>>>Didn't he write one also on the Chicago political machine -- "We don't want nobody nobody sent"? I thought that was a great title. Some kid wanted to get involved with the party and went to his local precinct head and volunteered. When he said that he didn't have a sponsor, that was the reply.
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>>If he did, I must've missed it. I'll have to check it out while I'm in "The Big Town". The other book that comes to mind is "Slats Grobnick And Other Friends".
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>>>I like Media Jones -- has promise for the lead character in a serio-sitcom. Maybe an updated Columbo?
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>>Let's not forget about Shaseed Umbata-Barat, now. But I don't want to go there.:-)
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>Well, one of the interesting things in the past couple months is that we are getting to know our Muslim and Arabic friends better, Shaseed. Although, your name has a tendency towards late-middle Proto-Sloveno-Ugaritic.

It's completely made up, so I've no idea as to the origins.:-)

>>>>I did have on more thought on writing and the picture at RoxWorld. What you see there is me in my James Joyce writing mode....Stream of Un-Consciousness.
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>>>I did meet one of the 5 people in the world who'd actually finished Ulysees. I asked him how it made him a different person, and he didn't have an answer. I guess most of us undergrads stop at "Portrait". Tried Ulysees, but, you know, puns are really funny when you say them, but, not nearly as funny out of someone else's mouth?
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>>I went to a small, private high school on the south side where I majored in basketball. One of the great things about it was the exposure to great literature. For example, I read Herman Hesse's "Siddhartha" when I was a sophomore, Joyce's "Dubliners" and "Portrait..." by the time I was a junior. Typically (and you probably won't believe this), the senior class tackled "Ulysees". Our senior class, however, was simply too stupid to be allowed to try.:-)
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>Sometimes, that can be a blessing!

In our case ("The Terrible Ten") it was. That was the number in my senior graduating class.

>My best lit teacher in grammar and high school was in 7th grade. She was an incredible motivator. She was big on working in groups. In one of her sections, she had us reading 19th and 20th century lit. My group got "existentialism." <g> I made it thru Camus' Plague. One of my friends had Kafka's Castle -- never did finish it, I think he got lost in the labyrinth. We each presented a book report on our assigned book. Of course, our favorite project was doing a newspaper. My team did "The Mafia Informer" and had a lot of fun with that.

Mine was the lit teacher, headmaster and senior advisor. We first got him for lit in my sophomore year (and had him for junior and senior years as well). The only way I can describe him is as an existential ex-Green Beret (which he was). He was the one that introduced all of this literature: Satre, Kafka, Dostoyesky (sp?), Kant, Gide, Camus, Hemingway, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, etc. In retrospect, I find it hard to believe that we read all that we did.

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>>>You know, I've heard that stream of unconsciousness of Bill Faulkner, too, so, there you go in that Southern novelist mode. <g>
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>>Hopefully, not in "As I Lay Dying."< bg >
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>Sound and Fury?

Much better.:-)