![]() ![]() What’s more, I’ve never heard of Edgar Lee Masters hitherto, so why should this volume call my attention? In short, boring (what a dreadful thing to confess!). The title, Spoon River Anthology, sounds like something provincial, about sitting on a river, a collection of stories thereabout (because this is what I associate with the word anthology). Were I to come across this book on the shelf, it would not stand out among all of those other books by MAS- last-named authors. How do we express the pleasure, the experience? Die Sache Selbst*: Spoon River Anthology But can we describe the actual pleasure? It’s really hard to say what feeling good is. We say, that was a thought-provoking book or a silly, trite book or an excellent, thrilling movie or a horrible, dumb movie, (or a good film, if we are fancy). ![]() One of the reasons I started this site was to try to write about this evanescent thing that everyone who reads/watches has had, yet no one speaks of - namely, the pleasure of reading this book or of watching this movie. ![]()
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