Votre Curriculum Vitae Fabuleux

form a broad succession and, in a word, have a history. To some, literary historians are embalmers and literary history a museum, a cemetery for dead authors, a hospital for geriatric books kept artificially alive on twin life-support systems of the curriculum and institutionalized culture. Yet at the start of a new millennium when the electronic revolution promises change as far-reaching as that which followed the introduction of printing, it is salutary to be reminded of how we got this far. To forget