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- From: slb22@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Seth L. Blumberg)
- Subject: Okay, let's get those flamethrowers out of the closet....
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- Organization: Generic American College Kids (G.A.C.K.)
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 02:24:41 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.022441.5742@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
- Summary: The valiant newbie attempts to start his very own flamewar.
- Reply-To: slb22@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Seth L. Blumberg)
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- Am I the only person in the world who 1) reads and discusses fantasy, 2) knows
- how to appreciate "real" literature, and 3) has a keenly-honed appreciation
- for Western European mythology, but 4) absolutely can't stand anything written
- by J.R.R. Tolkien?
-
- I mean, I appreciate the guy's scholarship and ability, but I *hate* the way
- he wrote. Alternately too chatty and too self-consciously epic. And I wish
- he hadn't thought he could write poetry....
-
- Seth L. Blumberg \ Warning: This posting has been determined to cause
- slb22@columbia.edu (play) \ cancer in laboratory animals. Please make sure
- sethb@ctr.columbia.edu (work) \ that no white mice are allowed to read it.
- > No one I know shares my opinions, least of all Columbia University. <
-