Neal Stephenson interview on Slashdot

[jrtom]

http://interviews.slashdot.org/interviews/04/10/20/1518217.shtml

Both informative and damned funny in spots. For those wishing to jump straight to the funny bits, check out the answer to question (4):

In a fight between you and William Gibson, who would win?

Comments

[gwyd.livejournal.com]

I suspect the folks arguing that way are not even aware of the classical material. The Greek novels were only discovered and translated about 15 years ago. (I can't be exact without going through a whole lot of boxes to find my copies.) My experience is historians seldom have a clue about what's going on in other historical specialties. It wouldn't surprise me at all if it wasn't the same in literature departments. Greek and Roman Lit classes tend to be taught by classisists anyway.