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To: Early Out who wrote (142)	5/29/1998 11:35:00 AM
From: jbe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2633

More on "The Critic." If I'm the model, let me observe that I don't keep Webster's, The Chicago Manual of Style, or any other weighty tome handy when I do a critique. As a matter of fact, I was just about to post a request on the Grammar thread, soliciting recommendations for the latest & best in stylistic manuals (because I do not have any). I just happen to be a professional writer, and so have some experience with trying to get a point across in the most economical, effective way possible. I repeat, though, that your take-off is very good. Interestingly, the best short-short stories on this thread tend to involve some kind of violence. Is that because the form requires a heightened dramatic effect, as it were? jbe