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Hmmm. Interesting but difficult game ... Somehow I find it much easier to remember the books that I did read. ;-) It would also be a book that I felt I'd have to have read, but never got round to - but there was a period in my life during which I got round to reading everything important. Besides that I had to work through a great deal of anthology stuff, read through Shakespeare's complete works and had most of the Latin stuff during my five years of Latin in secondary/highschool, and read most of the rest during my English lit; and then there were the survey courses on all major literary periods in the history of English language, so it'd have to be something in a different language than English I guess. Faust? I'm not sure I'd even want to read it though. Anyone have any ideas? I could use something to read ... last book I read was almost over a year ago I think. The book most on my mind is the book I've been writing myself and think about practically every other day; but I haven't managed writing a page for two years or so ... And who's keeping the score? I'd like to lose this one though I doubt it's very likely. Arwin "Still Thinking but what about 'War and Peace'?" van Arum > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: [log in to unmask] > [mailto:[log in to unmask]]Namens Richard Seddon > Verzonden: zondag 11 maart 2001 2:22 > Aan: [log in to unmask] > Onderwerp: Re: OFF TOPIC - Literary parlor game > > > Rick (Homer) Seddon > -----Original Message----- > From: Rickard Parker <[log in to unmask]> > To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Saturday, March 10, 2001 5:07 PM > Subject: OFF TOPIC - Literary parlor game > > > >>>From http://slate.msn.com/culturebox/entries/01-03-06_101969.asp > > > >In his novel Changing Places, David Lodge describes a literary > parlor game > >called "Humiliations" in which participants confess, one by one, > titles of > >books they've never read. The genius of the game is that each > player gains > a > >point for each fellow player who's read the book-in other words, the more > >accomplished the reader, the lower his or her score. Lodge's winner is an > >American professor who, in a rousing display of one-downmanship, finally > >announces that he's never read Hamlet. > > > > > >The page has some critics playing by confessing what they haven't read. > >There is also something about how to play a game of one-upmanship while > >"humiliating" yourself. > > > >Regards, > > Rick (Moby Dick) Parker > > > > > > > > > >