>>>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.

What was the prom like? Did you go to a private school?

>>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.

And we wonder why the 60's happened???

>>>>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?
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>Much better.:-)

As you like it!

Jay