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- Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!agate!rsoft!mindlink!a4099
- From: Alan_Barclay@mindlink.bc.ca (Alan Barclay)
- Subject: Re: support for the arts in the US
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 06:52:40 GMT
- Message-ID: <18425@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Sender: news@deep.rsoft.bc.ca (Usenet)
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- Hear! Hear! I agree with Crawford's comments on subsidized literary
- industry in Canada. It is necessary to reinforce Canadian identity in the
- field. I just regret that the Council (and other agencies) are so inbred.
- This is the opposite side of the coin: while Canadan writer need some
- reinforcement because we are one=tenth the population of the US, at the same
- time because we are small, there are fewer authors to be on directive
- orginizations.
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- I think literature serves a purpose--even if it doesn't sell well. Its an
- area where more experimentation is allowed (failures can be called
- "artistic"). It's sort of the abstract mathematics department, while genre
- fiction is applied engineering. I happen to like and aspire to write good
- genre fiction.
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- Alan
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- alan_barclay@mindlink.bc.ca
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- "When is a leg of lamb like a poet?"
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- Answer: "When it's browning."
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