7.0257 Rs: Movie; Reading List; Humor (3/51)
Elaine Brennan (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Wed, 20 Oct 1993 06:58:56 EDT
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 7, No. 0257. Wednesday, 20 Oct 1993.
(1) Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1993 12:58:26 -0400 (EDT) (22 lines)
From: Ted Parkinson <parkinsn@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca>
Subject: Re: 7.0246 Qs: S/W: Timelines,
(2) Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1993 21:45:45 -0400 (EDT) (17 lines)
From: jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu (James O'Donnell)
Subject: Unrequired Reading List
(3) Date: Mon, 18 Oct 93 16:16:12 EDT (12 lines)
From: "G. Bencivengo" <benciven@andromeda.rutgers.edu>
Subject: God in law firms
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Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1993 12:58:26 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ted Parkinson <parkinsn@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca>
Subject: Re: 7.0246 Qs: S/W: Timelines,
This is a reply to the question about the movie _The Music of Chance_ and
its "meaning." This movie is adapted from a work by the novelist Paul
Auster. Much of his fiction involves issues of chance, the meaning of
interpretation, etc. He likes to play lots of games with language and
sometimes he writes himself into his own work (in fact, he had a bit part
in the movie). He writes what some call postmodern detective fiction
including _The New York Trilogy_ which includes _The City of Glass_,
_Ghosts_, and _The Locked Room_. For more information you could search
out criticism of his work, or read his own volume of essays titled _The
Art of Hunger_.
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Ted Parkinson
Department of English
McMaster University parkinsn@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca
Hamilton, Ontario
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Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1993 21:45:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu (James O'Donnell)
Subject: Unrequired Reading List
B.L. Spahr's consistently excellent list, and the collection of three
postings praising the Buffalo list, inspires me to ask, was I the only one
who thought there were some perfectly *awful* books on that list? Gail
Sheehy? Carl Rogers? Barbara Tuchman? Those are the kinds of books
that I find in student hands and immediately think to myself, how can I
put a *real* book into those hands?
Jim O'Donnell
Classics, U. of Penn
jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu
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Date: Mon, 18 Oct 93 16:16:12 EDT
From: "G. Bencivengo" <benciven@andromeda.rutgers.edu>
Subject: God in law firms
God also exists in law firms. Even a law librarian who is an attorney
is painfully aware of this. I had had senior partners bark orders over
the phone to me and not even identify themselves. I guess they assumed
I would know the voice of God when I heard it. I did, but just to
be a devil I asked them to identify themselves. I knew my days as a law
firm librarian were numbered. Now I deal with God in a law school.
Librarians learn to work with God every day. Does this mean we will all
go to heaven?