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To: jbe who wrote (2984)6/20/1999 3:34:00 PM
From: Edwarda  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 4711
 
(Wincing a bit) O.K., I shall be sure not to post any of my favorite sci fi/fantasy authors to you.

Yes, I read the essay.



To: jbe who wrote (2984)6/20/1999 3:58:00 PM
From: The Philosopher  Respond to of 4711
 
As for me, I confess that mysteries BORE me

I KNEW there was something fundamentally wrong about you! <g>



To: jbe who wrote (2984)6/20/1999 4:44:00 PM
From: poet  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 4711
 
Re.>>>Did you ever read Edmund Wilson's essay, Who cares who killed Roger Ackroyd?<<<

Wilson was a snob, as Mary McCarthy told us on numerous occasions. I wouldn't let W. to set my intellectual or literary horizons.

P



To: jbe who wrote (2984)6/21/1999 9:54:00 AM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 4711
 
Have you read Conrad's The Secret Agent? Genre fiction can be elevated to the level of art, though he wrote it before the genre came into existence.


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