Re: RAT BLOOMSDAY 1999

[Troy Hollar <thollar@cohn-wells.com>]

With all due respect:

Actually, in literature anywhere (N, S, E or W), prose is a medium (not a
genre), and it comprises all that is not verse (the other medium), and vice
versa.

Genres in literature: story, novel, essay, poem, play, etc.

Easterners, let's inform ourselves before we argue, lest we (justifiably)
gain a reputation of being sophists.  And let's argue about something a
little more interesting than East vs. West, at least as it pertains to NY
vs. LA.




>Oh, sorry for the confusion out there. Back east, prose is a book that's
>not poetry or plays. More commonly, "prose" = "fiction". So basically,
>it's what you in LA call a "storybook,"  Or, maybe a Rand-McNally Road
>Atlas counts as prose.