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Old 10-13-2009, 12:45 PM   #6
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Bah! Humbug!
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I was both serious and joking.

If you're not familiar with the work of Henry James, may I respectfully suggest some of his short stories, or perhaps a novel from his Middle Phase [Period].

I mention this because I would hate for you to be turned off of him due to one of his more cryptic, later novels. I think he's one of the 2-3 greatest novelists in the English Language.


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Oh - I'm not complaining - I've been through the SS and early novels. I agree with your estimation of his place in the canon. Golden Bowl & Wings of a Dove remain for me the most difficult of his novels - but I keep at them!
It was truly awesome to turn the page on the DX and see the entire screen as solid, unbroken text. Tracing out some of the inter-nested punctuation was fascinating.
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