Kai nedidelio (6000 gyventojų) miestuko Stony Stratford politikai sugalvojo (genijai, ne kitaip) sutaupyti uždarydami biblioteką, miestelio gyventojai sumanė tam pasipriešinti ir parodyti,kaip jiems svarbi yra jų biblioteka.
Tai jie visi nuėjo ir pasiskolino po 15 knygų (daugiau neleidžia bibliotekos taisyklės).
Bibliotekoje dabar- daug tuščių lentynų, kurios, anot aktyvistų simbolizuoja tuštumą, kurią pajaustų bendruomenė, jei biblioteka būtų uždaryta.
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Atsimenat, rašėm apie tai, kaip susimušė du Nobelio premijos laureatai? Ir štai atradau literatūrinių įžeidimų dešimtuką, dėl kurių, manau irgi būtų galėję kilti muštynių, jei tik autoriai susitiktų akis į akį.
10. Gore Vidal on Truman Capote: “He’s a full-fledged housewife from Kansas with all the prejudices.”
9. Truman Capote on Jack Keruac: “”That’s not writing, that’s typing.”
8. Ernest Hemingway vs. William Faulkner:
Faulkner: “[Hemingway] has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.”
Hemingway: “Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?”
7. Edmund Wilson on Carl Sandburg
“The cruelest thing that has happened to Lincoln since he was shot by Booth was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg.”
6. Ralph Waldo Emerson on Jane Austen: “”Miss Austen’s novels . . . seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched and narrow. The one problem in the mind of the writer . . . is marriageableness.”
5. Virginia Woolf on Ulysses: “[Ulysses is] the work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.”
4. D.H.Lawrence on James Joyce: “My God, what a clumsy olla putrida James Joyce is! Nothing but old fags and cabbage stumps of quotations from the Bible and the rest, stewed in the juice of deliberate, journalistic dirty-mindedness—what old and hard-worked staleness, masquerading as the all-new!”
3. Elizabeth Bishop apie “Rugiuose prie bedugnės”: “I HATED the Salinger story. It took me days to go through it, gingerly, a page at a time, and blushing with embarrassment for him every ridiculous sentence of the way. How can they let him do it?”
2. Charles Darwin on Shakespeare: “”I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.”
1. Gore Vidal Vs. William F. Buckley:
Vidal: “As far as I am concerned, the only crypto Nazi I can think of is yourself.”
Buckley: “Now listen, you queer, stop calling me a crypto-Nazi or I’ll sock you in you goddamn face and you’ll stay plastered.”
—Democratic National Convention, 1968
O čia keletas pasišaudymų ne iš šito dešimtuko:
Anthony Burgess on Samuel Beckett: “Beckett does not believe in God, though he seems to imply that God has committed an unforgivable sin by not existing.”
Oscar Wilde on George Moore: “He leads his readers to the latrine and locks them in.”
Visokių crazy dešimtukų galite rasti čia. O gal žinai lietuvių autorių pasižodžiavimų?
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