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- From: pamela@sscux1.ssc.gov (pamela gurd)
- Subject: Re: 92 in rabreview
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.165319.20927@sunova.ssc.gov>
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- References: <1992Dec30.233606.3346@csusac.csus.edu> <1992Dec31.022551.17233@netcom.com> <1htpq3INN95b@agate.berkeley.edu>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 16:53:19 GMT
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- In article <1htpq3INN95b@agate.berkeley.edu> annie@garnet.berkeley.edu (Anne Jessop) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec31.022551.17233@netcom.com> dani@netcom.com (Dani Zweig) writes:
- >>Not comic books, graphic novels. A good graphic novel will take longer
- >>to read than most books. (Yes, most graphic novels are collections of
- >>a run of comic book.) But I agree that they shouldn't count anyhow.
- >
- >
- >I am reminded of the first page of _Alice in Wonderland_: "Once or twice
- >[Alice] had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no
- >pictures or conversation in it, 'and what is the use of a book,' thought
- >Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'"
- >
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- Did you ever wonder what Alice meant by "conversations"? This was one
- of the deep mysteries of my childhood, that Alice's sister read books
- with nothing in them at all.
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- Pam.
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