Due to lack of sleep as a result of two consecutive nights of midnight thunderstorms of long lasting, large and loud proportion and a cat named Dickens who got all worked up about it, I have nothing to offer except for this link:
One of my favorites is W.H. Auden on Robert Browning:
“I don’t think Robert Browning was very good in bed. His wife probably didn’t care for him very much. He snored and had fantasies about twelve-year-old girls.”
Oh wait, and this:
Notable Novelists of the 20th Century: A Card Game for Book Lovers
More thunderstorms are expected tonight but I think I am so tired that I will probably sleep right through them.
Much as I hate to agree with Nabokov, who I think comes off as a snob, he did bring up an excellent point about Dostoevsky.
Very entertaining! I love this one:
25. Gertrude Stein on Ezra Pound – “A village explainer. Excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not.”
The insults are rather good, although I wouldn’t want to be on the receiving end of one! Do hope you have a better night – I hate sleep deprivation. When my son was little I used to remind Mister Litlove (who can sleep through anything) that they tortured Winnie Mandela that way. Hope the thunderstorms take a different route through the skies than over your house!
Poor you, I hope you catch up on sleep (there’s nothing worse than sleep deprivation, IMHO)! Your link made me laugh out, especially Woolf on Joyce.
Sorry to hear about your bad nights’ sleep. I love the author insults, which a friend of mine had pointed out to me earlier this week. Somehow, it’s comforting, as an aspiring writer, to know that even some of the greatest writers have been mocked by others, because it emphasizes the fact that it’s all so subjective and personal. Some may hate you, but others will love you.
Softdrink, heh, he does make a good point, doesn’t he?
Sigrun, I liked that one too! There are some good ones on the list aren’t there?
Litlove, I know, they are funny for us but I don’t think I’d be laughing if I were the one being insulted. We got rain but it didn’t thunder so I got a decent night’s sleep. Could still use a little more, but I’m feeling much better today
Smithereens, I suppose when Baby Smithereens was born you got familiar with sleep deprivation. Feeling much more rested today, thank goodness. Woolf cracked me up too. She really didn’t like Joyce.
Emily, thanks, feeling a bit more rested now. I can understand how these might be comforting though that would not be my first impression. But then I am not an aspiring writer
Poor Dickens! Hopefully you all slept better…
“[Ulysses is] the work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.”
cold blooded lol
Daphne, slept much better thanks! I am feeling almost perky today. Of course it helps that it is now Friday
Conjuror, heh, definitely cold blooded.
I’m so glad you are feeling better — missing sleep is NO fun! Thunderstorms can be fun, but not if they keep you up.
I hope the weather has settled down for you and that you are sleeping better now.