Dante, the one-hit wonder

[George Thompson]

VS, quoting the ninny:

> I foreground the U.S. only because it means both cultural capital and book sales.

And here I thought that we of the U. S. were simply blessed to live in a country that had produced 3 or the 10 greatest poets to ever live.

GAT

George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.  Working on a new edition, though.

----- Original Message -----
From: Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com>
Date: Monday, March 7, 2011 8:06 pm
Subject: Re: Dante, the one-hit wonder
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU

> All lists of this type will be inane and superficial and will succeed
> in
> only one thing--getting everyone to complain about who was or was not
> included on the list, neglecting the fact that they falling into the
> same superficiality trap. Such a list can only exist in a culture
> obsessed with ranking everything from milk to porn stars, so the outcome
> is not particularly surprising. David Letterman got it exactly right by
> making fun of rankings for over 20 years now--with no one noticing what
> it is he is actually doing.
>
> But there is something else in the original post by Rader (at SFGate)
> that grabbed my attention:
>
> > I foreground the U.S. only because it means both cultural capital and
> > book sales.

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