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- From: ah@dunaad.co.uk (Alan Hunter)
- Newsgroups: news.groups,rec.arts.books
- Subject: Re: *Any* kind of r.a.b split, or at least a *serious* discussion
- Message-ID: <Bznp5y.3q9@dunaad.co.uk>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 10:29:58 GMT
- References: <1992Dec20.185632.21898@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> <1992Dec21.065326.11763@eff.org> <BzMJ73.GJo@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk>
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- Jack Campin writes:
-
- >
- >Yeah. Conversations about *books*, however broadly construed, like the one-
- >line summary of the group's remit says:
- >
- > Books of all genres, and the publishing industry.
- >
- >That does not stretch to interminable maunderings, however they got started,
- >about modal logic and the ethics of sexuality, or the sociology of SAT
- >scores, and still less to the CB-like prattle that's built up over the last
- >few months which is about nothing in particular except the egos of the
- >protagonists. If you want to do that sort of thing, get an IRC channel for
- >it.
-
- Were it not for the prescence of the unwashed and the half-
- educated, the formless queer and incomplete, the unreasonable
- and absurd, the infinite shapes of the delightful human tadpole,
- the horizon would not wear such a wide grin.
-
- I picked that up out of Hell's Angels by Hunter Thompson many, many years
- ago. I don't have a copy now so can't check the original attribution, but
- I don't believe they were Thompson's own words. He's a great fund of 4
- liners but not like that one. It sounds like a good thinker, but
- not a great writer (Thompson fits in both categories - I suppose that's an
- opinion rather than a universal truth. Its right though).
-
- Alan
-
-
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- Alan Hunter
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