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- From: francis@oas.stanford.edu (Francis Muir)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
- Subject: Re: Good Westerns
- Date: 28 Dec 1992 22:43:08 GMT
- Organization: Stanford Exploration Project
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- William R. Smith writes:
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- Sandra Loosemore writes:
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- "Riders of the Purple Sage" by Zane Grey is probably
- *the* classic western novel. It's a rather serious
- book with strong philosophical overtones.
-
- After hearing "Riders ..." recommended for years, I tried to
- read it a couple of months back. I gave up after about 15 page.
- In the first page or two Grey used the word "purple" eight or
- nine times while describing a sunset. I think it was a sunset,
- I was so distracted by all that purple I can't remember.
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- The book was published in the early 1900's and maybe the style
- got in my way.
-
- Can one read too much Horace? ZG may have. This snippet from the OED
- which has 297 pages on purple.
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- Purple patch, passage, piece, a brilliant or ornate passage
- in a literary composition (after L. purpureus pannus, Hor.
- De Arte Poet. 15).
-
- Yes, yes. The OED folk will have their little joke.
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- RABworm
-