"Actually, he's an ideal example of what I'm trying to point out to Nicholas, which is that books which are about other books--cultural artefacts which exist only as part of a dialogue with other cultural artefacts--are not just intensely boring or intensely irritating: they are *sad*. They are academicised, genericised and devoid of affect. If they were people they would have a personality disorder."

hehe, das gefaellt mir.

ich habe grad mal in meinen buechern rumgewuehlt, weil ich fuers kind "der grosse gatsby" suchen wollte, nicht gefunden, obwohl ich mir sicher bin, das es irgendwo vorhanden ist. finde ich vermutlich einmal in englisch, einmal in deutsch drei tage nachdem ich das neu gekauft habe...