Thursday, April 14, 2022
Another Tom Shippey Quote
From Joel Eidsath:
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"...and so I wrote the book which is called Tolkien: Author of the Century. And I knew they'd hate it. Oh, and they did. And indeed I remember another distinguished professor of literature shouting down the phone not to me but to another interviewer, "Author of the Century?! Has the fellow never heard of Proust?" Yes, the fellow has heard of Proust, actually. Shall we conduct the rest of this interview in French? I bet mine's better than yours, you monoglot clown."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHxP0JMn484&t=1040s (clip at timestamp)
