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It's a joke! jeez...

I think he's great. I've read Post Office, Factotum and Pulp and many of his poems. His work is gritty, sure, and depicts an unpleasant underbelly of American life. If you find his stuff disturbing,...

Because you are recommending and praising philosophy books on the basis of aesthetic merit.

I am toning the language down a little bit, but there are some which are very polished and deserve a very elevated translation.

Indeed, he is referring to just that sort of tablet as such found...

Pliny was a contemporary to Tacitus, the famous historian. Many of his letters are addressed to Tacitus, for they were friends. This one is cute, a harmless little piece about writing while hunting....

Why yes, I do do this. I didn't know there was a term for it. I've been inconsistent with it, though, but I do do it.

Well, say I wanted to go to the Literature Network and read Descent of Man. As I read, I could post to the appropriate forum at the bottom of the page if I had anything to say about it.

However,...

No, we don't have any replies except for the letters written to Trajan. But those letters were not published with the others and have a different manuscript tradition--Trajan's responses would have...

Mal: Wow, that's incredibly insulting, inappropriate and ignorant. You don't even know me.

I've spent the last decade studying Latin and Ancient Greek, I teach Latin and I have advanced degrees in...

No, these are original translations of my own, I am not "using" any translation. The text is a collection of Latin texts. Sorry I wasn't clear about that. I'll edit my original post to make that...

C. Pliny to his friend Septicius, Hello!

You've often urged me to gather together and publish my letters, if I had written any with some care. I have collected them. I didn't keep them in any...

Pliny the Younger (61-c.117) was a wealthy landowner who flourished during the reigns of Domitian and Trajan. He was a lawyer, essentially, who was devoted to literature. His claim to fame? A body of...

Mal, you haven't heard of those people because you aren't really engaging philosophy as philosophy. You're stuck on Bloom and others and this idea of the "Western canon," which simply doesn't apply...

I have never read in the bathroom. I don't understand it.

I'd rather reframe the discussion to ask whether Literature can be universal. Some isn't. It's topical, often on purpose.

You can disagree all you want but you really are wrong, sorry. Philosophy isn't a matter of taste. It is a field of inquiry, not unlike physics. You can't rate an article published in a physics...

No, they haven't. J.S. Bach doesn't count. In order to actually discuss the thesis, we need examples of contemporary American artists, because the study categorized subjects as liberal or...

But the argument is that being politically conservative means being less creative...it isn't necessary that one's politics come through into one's artwork.

Of course, it goes with out saying that...

yeah, you need to get to the Apropos of Wet Snow section for plot.

Also, it isn't so much about "hating the world" and isolation, although that is part of it. It is about a man obstinately...

The article linked to is really in reference to contemporary politics in the united states. "Liberal" and "Conservative" have precise definitions, as measured by views about particular topics, like...

Sounds like a homework question to me! Why don't you post your own thoughts first and we can discuss it?

I wouldn't be ashamed of reading children's literature, although it may not be very satisfying....however, Ender's Game is children's literature? Really? I don't know about that. Sure, it is genre...

As for the definition of "pulp," there actually is a pretty well agreed upon understanding of what "pulp" is. If we're going to be precise about the term, we need to recognise that it represents a...

Well, I didn't exactly say that no philosophical text can be a work of literature. My point is that philosophy is a field on inquiry, just like psychology or physics, but which studies its own...

I for one have no qualms about setting aside a book that I don't like. In fact, if I have read a book, I can assure you I enjoyed it! If the author is doing a bad job I simply won't waste my time on...