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Originally Posted by teh603
If you're talking litfic, then you might as well stop with James Joyce. No author is ever going to be more modernistic than him, and no works more modernistic (and incomprehensible) than Finnegan's Wake or Ulysses. Which actually makes the whole discussion about keeping later books moot. There's no point in keeping later authors available, because they're never going to top him, and no future literary movements to have their own great authors.
After all, you can never be more modern than modern, right? *nasty litfic prof possum grin*
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Now, now, I was just citing some examples...(And when did Chandler become "litfic"? I missed the memo...)