Two novels with @coronasamizdat PhD @EnglishWarwick 2009 (published a bit on Thomas Pynchon) For now, not here much...still active at https://xitter.cf/t.co/Yfh913toEA
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![Vico's gift [of his book] did not elicit a response in this case
either. The author was bitterly disappointed with the
public reaction to his book, or to be more exact, with the
lack of reaction. 'In this city', he wrote from Naples, 11
reckon that I have sent it to the desert, and I avoid all the
main centres so as not to meet the people to whom I have
sent copies, and if I cannot avoid them, I greet them hastily;
and when this happens none of them give any sign of having
read it, and so confirm me in my opinion that I have sent it
to the desert.' Since the ideas of Descartes remained so
fashionable in Naples, Vico commented sadly in another of
his letters, it was only to be expected that his own work
would be condemned.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G_wClSlWoAAsLSM.jpg?name=orig)
ALT Vico's gift [of his book] did not elicit a response in this case either. The author was bitterly disappointed with the public reaction to his book, or to be more exact, with the lack of reaction. 'In this city', he wrote from Naples, 11 reckon that I have sent it to the desert, and I avoid all the main centres so as not to meet the people to whom I have sent copies, and if I cannot avoid them, I greet them hastily; and when this happens none of them give any sign of having read it, and so confirm me in my opinion that I have sent it to the desert.' Since the ideas of Descartes remained so fashionable in Naples, Vico commented sadly in another of his letters, it was only to be expected that his own work would be condemned.
