Now how's about a follow-up where the two of you divvy up, 50-50, a post-postmodernism deconstruction of Interview Technique and Style?

I'm serious! It would be a great follow-up!

Thanks for the Day Cheerer ;-)

salonmarte

that keats is one of the 36?

The guy who left his hat on the bed is one of the Tzadik'im.

They work... Invisibly!

...does the sentence "[t]he decline of fiction has weakened our faith -- our ability to suspend disbelief -- and has created an imaginative vacuum exploited by religious dogma and intolerance" not make any logical sense?

Religious dogma and intolerance florishes because of faith, not in the absence of it.

This book sounds interesting, but this guy strikes me as the "annoyingly quirky" artist. I'll withhold judgment until I actually read something he has written. Sometimes, pointlessly odd-ball behavior is a substitute for actual talent.

And why does every writer with intellectual pretensions feel the need to work it into their writing lately? Usually I can glean a word's meaning from context, but not so with this one yet, which says to me there is probably a much clearer way of saying the same thing.

The foreword to a book is spelled foreword (the word in front), not forward.

Wikipedia to the rescue:

Samizdat (Russian: самиздат) was the clandestine copying and distribution of government-suppressed literature or other media in Soviet-bloc countries. Copies were made a few at a time, and those who received a copy would be expected to make more copies. This was often done by handwriting or typing.

Cynthia Ozick had a female character create a female golem, who in turn caused this character to become mayor of New York. You can find it in The Puttermesser Papers. Very good stuff,and very funny.

If he was really invested in "blasphemy" he'd go into detail about all the hideous ethnocentrism and chauvinism in the Talmud. That kind of emphasis is guaranteed to be more upsetting then the "I'm so quirky" approach we see on display here.

Huzza! Huzza!

There is a new Theory of Everything Breakthrough. It exposes the flaws in both Quantum Theory and String Theory. Please see: Theory of Super Relativity at http:www.superrelativity.org

Einstein was right!