 The Best Literary Magazine In The World..., is back! (in my humble opinion) |
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 Dec 10 2004, 10:38 AM
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 Out of the Woods Now  Group: Members Posts: 402 Joined: 13-March 04 From: Bloomington, Indiana Member No.: 280  |
If you have never read The Oxford American, you are in for a treat! It's back after much turmoil. I treasure my back issues of this wonderful, literary treat. Of course, the highlight of each year was the amazing music issue. The new issue looks very good. (Thank God they are finally on solid financial ground) I can't wait to get my copy and devour it cover to cover!
-------------------- Dennis
_______________________________________________________________ People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway. Mother Teresa How did the faith of Jesus come to be known as pro-rich, pro-war, and only pro-American? Jim Wallis (Sojourners) E.S.A. |
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Dec 10 2004, 10:51 AM
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 A Little Lower Than the Angels Group: Members Posts: 907 Joined: 6-March 04 From: Santa Marta, Colombia Member No.: 228 |
Maud Newton pulled out an excerpt for our benefit--Charles Portis' "The Wind Bloweth Where It Listeth: an exclusive report on a strange writing factory."
QUOTE Readers . . . will recall an old theory/prophecy that went as follows: a hundred monkeys pecking away at random on a hundred typewriters will eventually reproduce the complete works of William Shakespeare. The terms may be a little dated, what with the typewriters, and that modest round number, meant to suggest something like "many," or even "infinite." And one monkey, of course, would suffice, given enough time and an immortal monkey. In any case, the chance duplication would require the monkeys -- let us say a brigade of monkeys -- to peck out 38 excellent plays and some 160 poems of one metrical beat or another. Is the musty old prophecy at last being fulfilled? We now have millions of monkeys pecking away more or less at random, day and night, on millions of personal computer keyboards. We have "word processors," the Internet, e-mail, and "the information explosion." Futurists at our leading universities tell us the day is at hand when, out of this maelstrom of words, a glorious literature must emerge, and indeed flourish. So far, however, as of today, Tuesday, September 14, late afternoon, the tally still seems to be fixed at: Shakespeare: 198, Monkeys: 0 Thanks for the heads-up, Dennis! I'll definitely look into it... -------------------- "There is no mystery in art. Do the things you can see, they will show you what you cannot see."
~ Isak Dinesen "Books are still the best companions for a shipwreck, or for the day after the night before." ~ Umberto Eco "True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility. If you love something, you want to look after it." ~ Philip Pullman beginning the world |
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Dec 12 2004, 03:42 PM
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Out of the Woods Now Group: Members Posts: 402 Joined: 13-March 04 From: Bloomington, Indiana Member No.: 280 |
After late service today (I normally go to early service, but the Taft show kept me out until 3:00 a.m.!), I stopped by Borders to buy the NYT & Chicago Tribune. As I was scanning the magazine rack, I saw the new issue of the Oxford American! Happy, happy, joy, joy!
-------------------- Dennis
_______________________________________________________________ People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway. Mother Teresa How did the faith of Jesus come to be known as pro-rich, pro-war, and only pro-American? Jim Wallis (Sojourners) E.S.A. |
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