Literature?
If You were to write a letter to an author explaining your reaction to his or her book, play, or story, who would you pick? why? which work of literature? Is there anything you would ask them that was unanswered in the book? I plan to, but there are so many authors, who do you think?
Last edited by jacobwilliam1; 11-13-2009 at 11:04 PM.
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Start with intriducing yourself
“Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature””
“If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.
Really interesting question. I first thought you meant theoretically, as in: which author would you most like to talk to.
As to your question, there are honestly not a lot of living authors I'm that interested in. I appreciate the skill of Roth and Pynchem, but can't imagine they'd want to hear from me or really that what they'd have to say is all that meaningful to someone they don't know.
Honestly, I would probably write someone less famous whose work I appreciated and for whom I had a very specific question. I imagine people would see through a question contrived to authorize a coorospondence.
For me the author would probably be Mario Vargas Llosa. I don't really know why.
James Joyce. And it would be a letter bomb.
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