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- Path: sparky!uunet!gumby!yale!willamette.edu!ehenness
- From: ehenness@willamette.edu (Ethan D. Hennessey)
- Subject: Re: HPL
- Message-ID: <Bxtvop.6o2@willamette.edu>
- Organization: Willamette University, Salem OR
- References: <BxC0CD.FAK@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <wZu6TB4w165w@noncomf.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 21:29:12 GMT
- Lines: 28
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- In article <wZu6TB4w165w@noncomf.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca> pmarlowe@noncomf.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca (philip marlowe) writes:
- >mlm@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Michael McCool) writes:
- >
- >> philip marlowe (pmarlowe@noncomf.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca) wrote:
- >> :
- >> : Let's face reality here -- HPL was a LOUSY writer. His prose was so
- >> : thick and convoluted that it's almost impossible to read -- almost
- >> : Milton-esque, in a strange kind of way.
- >> :
- >> : That said, I do read his stuff every now and again because his
- >> : imagination ALMOST overcomes the turgid prose...not an easy thing to do.
- >> :
- >>
- >> Expect a LOT of e-mail.
- >> --MLM
- >
- >
- > Let 'em come...I'll take 'em on one at a time, or all at once.
- > HPL WAS a lousy writer.
- >
- > And so is Dean R. Koontz.
- >
- >marlowe
-
- Okay, Mr Opinion man, so who is your idea of a good writer? Hemingway,
- I suppose. Dick and Jane primers?
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