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- From: jack@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
- Subject: Re: Wits and Half-Wits
- Message-ID: <Bzs03t.KKH@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 18:16:40 GMT
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- Reply-To: jack@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin)
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- hhenderson@vax.clarku.edu quoted Tom Maddox:
- > I'm much more concerned with whether people are being interesting, witty,
- > enlightening, provocative. In short, when it comes to public exchanges of
- > the written word, I would hold up Oscar Wilde or Dorothy Parker as exemplars
- > rather than Miss Manners.
-
- I'd hold them up as exemplars, too. People who produced a small output
- with every superfluous word excised. I suspect that Parker's collected
- short stories amount to fewer words than some posters put out here in a
- year.
-
- But the real muse of Usenet is Thomas Wolfe. To be precise, Thomas Wolfe
- without a counterbalancing Maxwell Perkins. The Wolfe who was once found
- wandering round the docks at dawn shouting to the stars "I WROTE THIRTY
- THOUSAND WORDS TODAY!".
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