RE: RAT BLOOMSDAY 1999

["Sylvain, John" <jsylvain@station.sony.com>]

Help! Help! I'm bein' suppressed!

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Troy Hollar [SMTP:thollar@cohn-wells.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, June 17, 1999 2:09 PM
> To:	rat-list@whirl-i-gig.com
> Subject:	Re: RAT BLOOMSDAY 1999
> 
> 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.
> 
>