To: "TCR1 (E-mail)" 
From: "Hailey, Jay"

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A good example why modern literati should be thoroughly and harshly ignored to death

THOG CONQUERS THE WORLD. Wearying of best-novel polls, _The Independent_
invited pundits to select the worst. The `winner', with three nominations,
was _The Lord of the Rings_. Sir John Mortimer just loathes `Anything about
Gandalf, and those little things with hair between their toes. I hate that
sort of portentous, phoney, medieval-magical way of writing.' Alain de
Botton feels actively threatened by Tolkien: `It's strange, weird and
frightening, and makes me feel like I'm on the sidelines of a joke I don't
understand.' Poor dear. Other excoriated fantasies included the Harry
Potter saga, _The Tempest_, and _Jonathan Livingstone Seagull_. But
J.G.Ballard put in a bad word for _Finnegans Wake_: `Joyce's
incomprehensible novel, which has provided a living for generations of
English Literature professors, represents a lamentable tendency in 20th
Century fiction: the quest for total obscurity. _Finnegans Wake_ is the
best example of modernism disappearing up its own fundament.


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