Oh, and Dr. Seuss. Of course.

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I attempted to get working on The Noise of Endless Wars this evening, and managed to spit out three whole sentences before deleting two of them an hour later. Oh, well. In lieu of that, from entrope comes a quick meme: Name 15 formative writers in your life. (I started in with commentary on the whys and wherefores for these items, but abandoned that plan on account of zomigod it's late. If you want any of my reasoning explained, drop me a line.)

1) John Crowley
2) Richard Adams
3) Madeleine L'Engle
4) Douglas Hofstadter
5) e.e. cummings
6) Lewis Carroll
7) Cecilia Tan
8) David Sedaris
9) Kit Williams
10) Raymond Smullyan
11) Robert Holdstock
12) Milorad Paviç
13) Spider Robinson
14) Edward Gorey
15) James Joyce

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[entrope.livejournal.com]

I went back and forth over James Joyce, but left him off by a hair's breadth. I consider Ulysses to be a magnificent book, full of complexity and humanity and beautiful structure, and if there had been 16 he would have been there.