Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!gummo!whuxlb!pyuxll!eisx!npoiv!npois!hogpc!houxm!ihnp4!zehntel!zinfandel!steve From: steve@zinfandel.UUCP Newsgroups: net.books Subject: Re: re: a Confederacy of Dunces - (nf) Message-ID: <1138@zehntel.UUCP> Date: Thu, 28-Jul-83 01:17:57 EDT Article-I.D.: zehntel.1138 Posted: Thu Jul 28 01:17:57 1983 Date-Received: Sun, 31-Jul-83 20:17:48 EDT Lines: 17 #R:psuvax:-17500:zinfandel:18100007:000:501 zinfandel!steve Jul 27 15:32:00 1983 A big :-( to the elitist statement: "The fact that [A Confederacy of Dunces] was on the best-sellers list should be sufficient warning." -Bruce Parker, Penn State So you think you can set yourself above the hoi polloi and generally condemn popular taste with some smug superiority, well you're nothing but a bimmler and a shimp to boot. (By the way, A Confederacy of Dunces was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, but that's almost as bad as being popular...) zinfandel!steve nelson