Re: His Dark Materials (was Re: "Da Vinci" Debunking

> >"All infidel writers drop into oblivion,  [snip]
> >                               - Samuel Johnson
>
> Ah yes, but this is the same literary prognosticator who famously
> declared, "Nothing odd will do long. 'Tristram Shandy' did not last."

Oh, well... even the Great Cham of Literature could be wrong on occasion!
:-)

> Also, whose writings (not conversations, I hasten to qualify) are
> more widely read today: those of Johnson or those of his infidel
> friend Gibbon (or, for that matter, his infidel bete noire Hume)?

But Gibbon and Hume have interesting things to say apart from their 'infidel'
views, and they say it well. I don't think Pullman is in the same league.

David





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