Comments on: Further correspondence of A. Greenwood and GST

By: Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 15:40:56 +0000

Literature should not be an exercise in intellectual onanism.

By: Sinatra

Sinatra — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 15:33:00 +0000

To be do be do.

By: Sartre

Sartre — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 15:32:48 +0000

To do is to be.

By: Socrates

Socrates — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 15:32:33 +0000

To be is to do.

By: Jeeves

Jeeves — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 15:31:34 +0000

Sir, I believe that the whole point of existentialist drama is that it is both pointless and not very dramatic. Its philosophical underpinnings are the two propositions that a Universe without God is absurd, and that belief in God is absurd. One cannot expect to construct sound literature and philosophy on a foundation that is at least half wrong.

I refer, of course, to actual existentialist literature. The posted dialog is merely droll.

By: Bertie

Bertie — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 15:22:56 +0000

Say, this is one of those stream of consciousness thingies, what? Or perhaps in the spirit of those existentialist chappies. Which I could never quite get into the old bean, not seeing the point of it all, and all.

By: Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 15:46:54 +0000

I don’t know. The dialogue is good, but I’m having a hard time understanding the motivation of the characters. And there appears to be no plot.

By: Vader

Vader — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 23:55:06 +0000

Pickup truck here at the moment. But before that it was an old Plymouth Voyager.

I am informed that the underaged have more valuable uses for their time nowadays than menial labor. However, I disbelieve this.