Sorry for going back on topic, but I quite enjoyed that.
STAR WARS IS RAD also, with the battletoads, anyway
#17
Posted 06 June 2004 - 11:28 AM
Um, I'm not POSITIVE Shakespeare read Homer, but he definitely read a bunch of classical writers. And the Bible. And a bunch of other stuff. Where do you think he got all the plots for his plays? And obviously Hemingway read and wrote stuff before he read Fitzgerald. That's a silly thing to say. We have to read classic AND contemporary fiction. Hooray for balance and diversity!!!!!
This post has been edited by Caolan: 06 June 2004 - 11:28 AM
#19
Posted 16 June 2004 - 11:21 PM
I'm very much with Caolan on this. I've been mostly into the classics lately but I've also read Anne Rice and John Steinbeck and the beat poets. I'm not sure what impact the writing of an age can have on a writer but I prefer to take in as much as I can. Besides, we already know the classics are good so there's no risk in reading them.
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I don't know about you but I have never advocated that homosexuals, for any reason, be cut out of their mother's womb and thrown into a bin.