It doesn't get much snarkier than Herman Melville's The Confidence-Man.
If you have to ask, "but is it any good?" then that 19th-century novel is probably not worth writing a book and several scholarly articles about. Just sayin'.
Monday, April 15, 2013
I read War and Peace. And I liked it. Put that in your vodka and smoke it.
"Alas/
I believe/
I might have become/
a great writer/
but/
the chairs/
in the library/
were too hard."
- Diane DiPrima
Saturday, April 13, 2013
"A man said to the universe:/'Sir, I exist!'/'However,' replied the universe,/'The fact has not created in me/ A sense of obligation.'"
- Stephen Crane
(The dude is my hero. Of course he died at 28- he would have had a great career had he lived. Oh jealous universe!)
