tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752457333383090137.post2612012102146773078..comments2024-03-22T05:48:33.690-07:00Comments on Uncensored John Simon: EPIGRAMSJohn Simonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00876490457067235124noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752457333383090137.post-71027898627528750462013-12-27T13:19:04.455-08:002013-12-27T13:19:04.455-08:00While the baby shouldn't be thrown out with th...While the baby shouldn't be thrown out with the bathwater, the disposable diaper needs to be thrown out with the turd. <br /><br />Most of pop culture aren't babies but disposable diapers. Good ones are clean diapers that you can use and throw away. Bad ones are diapers already soiled with shit. Just toss away. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752457333383090137.post-76983761807228916002013-12-27T13:16:54.341-08:002013-12-27T13:16:54.341-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752457333383090137.post-2454312471460359932013-12-14T12:04:51.942-08:002013-12-14T12:04:51.942-08:00Here's AN answer, can't vouch for its vera...Here's AN answer, can't vouch for its veracity:<br /><br />"Thalaba, Mr. SOUTHEY'S second poem, is written in open defiance of precedent and poetry. Mr. S. wished to produce something novel, and succeeded to a miracle. Joan of Arc was marvellous enough, but Thalaba was one of those poems 'which,' in the words of PORSON, 'will be read when Homer and Virgil are forgotten, but — not till then'" Lord Byron, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809) in Poetical Works, ed. E. H. Coleridge (1898-1904) 1:313n.<br /><br />http://spenserians.cath.vt.edu/TextRecord.php?action=GET&textsid=35535noochinatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12584058407655395128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752457333383090137.post-5842188133652643572013-12-14T11:08:16.620-08:002013-12-14T11:08:16.620-08:00John, who was it who wrote something to the effect...John, who was it who wrote something to the effect that Southey will be read when Homer and Virgil are forgotten, but not until then?<br />Out of Contexthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02876504367854347630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752457333383090137.post-88590839058540569132013-12-11T05:08:39.814-08:002013-12-11T05:08:39.814-08:00Simon on Vidal: "Gore Vidal is a slick noveli...Simon on Vidal: "Gore Vidal is a slick novelist, impressive essayist, and perfect bitch."<br /><br />http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/What-Gore-remembers-4170noochinatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12584058407655395128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752457333383090137.post-5912631311807712732013-12-09T23:07:24.974-08:002013-12-09T23:07:24.974-08:00http://thecriticjohnsimon.com/paradigms-lost/the-g...http://thecriticjohnsimon.com/paradigms-lost/the-good-and-bad-of-gore-vidal/<br /><br />The Good and Bad of Gore Vidal<br />From Paradigms Lost<br /><br />Vidal on Simon:<br /><br />"“There is nothing he cannot find to hate. Yet in his way, Mr. Simon is pure; a compulsive rogue criminal, more sadistic Gilles de Rais than neighborhood thug. Robert Brustein . . . is not pure; he has ambitions above his station. Mr. Simon knows that he is only an Illyrian gangster [a reference to my origin, or, as Vidal put it a few lines earlier, "a Yugoslav with a proud if somewhat incoherent Serbian style] and is blessedly free of side; he simply wants to torture and kill in order to be as good an American as Mr. Charles Manson, say, or Lyndon Johnson.”Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752457333383090137.post-45162498191273844272013-12-09T23:03:34.300-08:002013-12-09T23:03:34.300-08:00“What other culture could have produced someone li...“What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?"<br /><br />What other culture? Perhaps one that takes MYRA BRECKINRIDGE seriously as literature. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752457333383090137.post-68863447408811560772013-12-09T04:01:08.785-08:002013-12-09T04:01:08.785-08:00Hilarious stuff, and yes, Diana Rigg is a cathedra...Hilarious stuff, and yes, Diana Rigg is a cathedral I'd love to worship in.noochinatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12584058407655395128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752457333383090137.post-65189258098072168352013-12-08T00:12:40.178-08:002013-12-08T00:12:40.178-08:00"John Simon is the greatest film critic of th..."John Simon is the greatest film critic of the 19th century." -- Andrew Sarris. <br /><br />Ain't that the truth. <br /><br />http://www.filmcomment.com/article/hail-the-conquering-hero-andrew-sarris-profiledAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752457333383090137.post-24788123105619238122013-12-07T07:39:14.641-08:002013-12-07T07:39:14.641-08:00Charlotte Corday killed Jean-Paul Marat not George...Charlotte Corday killed Jean-Paul Marat not Georges Danton. Guillotine got him.Joe Carlsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10925042164233399553noreply@blogger.com