(OT) Life, The Lozenge, Everything...

From: Andrew Solovay <asolovay_at_...>
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 19:01:50 -0800

John Hughes <mailto:nysalor_at_...> wrote:

>

> I would
> certainly argue for the Hitchhiker Trilogy as one of the finest
> twentieth century English language examples of a heroquest.

I'd rank "Till We Have Faces" somewhat higher, but it's a very different kind of quest there... (More laughs in "Hitchhiker", though. Definitely.)

Come to think of it, "The Man Who Was Thursday" is awfully heroquesty, too. I *think* that's 20th-c...