tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7910834.post7094279985164390158..comments2023-10-15T08:40:12.715-05:00Comments on Interdisciplinary World: No More Radical Reading in College?Troy Camplinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16515578686042143845noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7910834.post-38563062543768526742009-03-24T15:34:00.000-05:002009-03-24T15:34:00.000-05:00Make a list of all the Asian-American women writer...Make a list of all the Asian-American women writers, and I have little doubt she'll be at the top.<BR/><BR/>I only read Tropic of Cancer. Toward the beginning is one of my favorite quotes of all time: <BR/><BR/>""I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive. A year ago, six months ago, I thought that I was an artist. I no longer think about it, I am. Everything that was literature has fallen from me. There are no more books to be written, thank God."<BR/><BR/>He then declares that Tropic of Cancer isn't a book, but a song.Troy Camplinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16515578686042143845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7910834.post-70549846209579023162009-03-24T15:07:00.000-05:002009-03-24T15:07:00.000-05:00I like to think of Tan as the Shakespeare of Asian...I like to think of Tan as the Shakespeare of Asian American Women. <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Tan#Quotes" REL="nofollow">As does she</A>.<BR/><BR/>Only Henry Miller I ever read was <EM>Sexus</EM> but it was pretty wild.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02312740064923045194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7910834.post-86247634828358086722009-03-24T14:11:00.000-05:002009-03-24T14:11:00.000-05:00Can't read everything all at once, you know. Been ...Can't read everything all at once, you know. Been reading people like Kundera, Camus, Sartre, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Sappho, Victor Hugo, Stendhal, Carole Maso, Frederick Turner, Dostoevski, Goethe, Andre Breton, Henry Miller -- just to name a few right off the top of my head. Oh, and that Shakespeare fella. Spins quite a yarn, he does.Troy Camplinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16515578686042143845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7910834.post-5897374883465625992009-03-24T13:11:00.000-05:002009-03-24T13:11:00.000-05:00You haven't read Joy Luck Club and you call yourse...You haven't read <EM>Joy Luck Club</EM> and you call yourself a Ph D?<BR/><BR/>FYI, Shakespeare owes his "classicism" to patriarchy and Francophobia.<BR/><BR/>:PJohnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02312740064923045194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7910834.post-81181419332647281322009-03-23T23:18:00.000-05:002009-03-23T23:18:00.000-05:00I mention those I've read myself. And Shakespeare ...I mention those I've read myself. And Shakespeare gets included in the classics.Troy Camplinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16515578686042143845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7910834.post-15947333125114660672009-03-23T23:11:00.000-05:002009-03-23T23:11:00.000-05:00You forgot Shakespeare and Amy Tan.You forgot Shakespeare and Amy Tan.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02312740064923045194noreply@blogger.com