Dante, the one-hit wonder

[Jonathan Lighter]

"Cultural imperialism"?

You mean foreigners don't love and want this crap as much as the wicked
Americans do?

Dream on!

JL
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 8:43 PM, George Thompson <george.thompson at nyu.edu>wrote:

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> VS, quoting the ninny:
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> > I foreground the U.S. only because it means both cultural capital and
> book sales.
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> 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
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> 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.
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> From: Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com>
> Date: Monday, March 7, 2011 8:06 pm
> Subject: Re: Dante, the one-hit wonder
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> > 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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