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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: coug who wrote (45906)7/17/1999 12:10:00 PM
From: jbe  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
Coug, there is nothing the matter with the sentences from London and Steinbeck (except for the misspelling of "intimate" and the word "period" in place of "periods," which may possibly be your doing rather than London's).

The following section of the Heller passage does sound odd: "the measured of ebb and flow of the tides." But here again, I suspect that you inadvertently inserted the "of" after "measured" (and before "ebb'). Otherwise, there is nothing "technically" wrong with the sentence.

And what Miller? Henry Miller? And I don't even know who Abbey and B. Craven are, incidentally.

And are these really the "best" writers? As distinct from "good" writers?

And what do you mean when you say "the kind literary snobs ho ho in new writers but revere in the classics"? Is London, for example, a "new writer"? And just who are the "literary snobs" you are talking about?

That should keep you busy for a bit. :-)

Joan
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