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- From: dac@prolix.apana.org.au (Andrew Clayton)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
- Subject: Re: Maddoxian flatus (was Re: Flatulence)
- Message-ID: <eUKcs*ZN0@prolix.apana.org.au>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 06:36:30 GMT
- References: <168C57F1A.TROUTMAN@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Dec23.080336.21181@netcom.com>
- <RAwbs*4M0@prolix.apana.org.au> <1992Dec27.222452.20233@netcom.com>
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- In article <1992Dec27.222452.20233@netcom.com>, Tom Maddox writes:
-
- > I am touched by your conviction that with a little effort my literary
- > efforts can be made to stand beside those of the immortals
-
- A mere bagatelle.
-
- > Perhaps your ambivalence is caused by two things. First, you are
- > overwhelmed by the magnificence of _Halo_, which is touching.
-
- I was underwhelmed by your book, mostly because it wasn't
- anywhere near as entertaining as most of the other SF books in my
- collection, but partly because I thought you might be able to
- write better than, say, Jean M. Auel. Instead I found that I was
- the "proud" owner of a twee little work that meandered around,
- getting precisely nowhere, and not doing anything interesting
- in between.
-
- Simon Ing's _Hot Head_ was a more vivacious work, by a very young
- and much less qualified [or should I say 'crusty'?] person than
- you pretend to be.
-
- > the alternative explanation is that you were simply too stupid to inquire
- > about a paperback).
-
- A snide allegation, fully filling the promise of the persona you
- usually project into this, and other, newsgroups.
-
- > Second, alas, you remember with some bitterness the time I
- > called you Caliban, and you didn't know who that was.
-
- What I recall was that you loudly proclaimed that you were a
- clever sod, and I disputed your arrogant opinion.
-
- Obviously your memory of the heady days of your short lived visit
- to alt.flame, was brightened at the thought of being able to
- trounce someone with your splenetic displays of "Tom, the
- masterful erudite pedant in action."
-
- > I would have considered you more Bottom than Caliban perhaps (this time,
- > Andrew, ask someone who Bottom is, and don't get all petulant about your
- > ignorance).
-
- With your ``huge, vast, boundless knowledge of English writing,''
- is it merely manners on your part that you choose to equate me
- with yet another Shakespearian character? Droll, Tom. And I
- would wager that such a tired pedestrian progression was about
- the limit of your sense of fair play.
-
- Do have fun being a pompous ass. One, after all, should excel at
- what one is truly interested in.
-
- Dac
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- dac@prolix.apana.org.au David Andrew Clayton. // _| _ _
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