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- From: francis@oas.stanford.edu (Francis Muir)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
- Subject: Re: 92 in rabreview
- Date: 29 Dec 1992 16:09:49 GMT
- Organization: Stanford Exploration Project
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- Rod Williams writes:
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- Jan Yarnot writes:
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- I've had an eventful r.a.b. year. I read some 220 books,
- mostly mysteries, but some of the best were by David Lodge
- (who is indeed funny, and Catholic, and I don't think ex-,
- JoAnn, more muddlin' through like I do, and who is married
- with two children, which doesn't leave "gay" out, but the
- way he writes, I have my doubts) (I don't want to get flamed
- .... I just mean his hetero-sex scenes seem to indicate an
- authorial interest)
-
- Yes...I think someone was confusing Lodge with David Plante,
- an American writer who is funny and ex-Catholic and gay...
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- And the someone was no less than the RABworm. It took a Goliath, Rod
- Williams, to seperate the two Davids. BTW, there are no ex-Catholics.
- Its just that one gives up practising. Popery is more like bicycle-riding
- than piano-playing. Once learnt, never forgotten, and practise may make
- perfect, but perfection is best left to the perfectionists.
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- RABworm
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