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- From: callahan@lost-boy.cs.jhu.edu (Paul Callahan)
- Subject: Re: 92 in rabreview
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.211220.326@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 21:12:20 GMT
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- dani@netcom.com (Dani Zweig) writes:
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- >annie@garnet.berkeley.edu (Anne Jessop):
- >>All kidding aside, because after all this is rec.arts.books...
- >>why wouldn't graphic _novels_ count?
-
- >It's a judgment call: Where do you draw the line? If I'm counting the
- >number of books I've read this year, can I count each comic book? How
- >about a run of comic books: Can I declare that issues 1 through 8 of
- >Sandman should count as one book? If not, does this change because
- >those issues were reprinted as a graphic novel? Maybe.
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- How about match books? There must be at least one or two chain smokers on
- this group...
- --
- "I would rather be torn to pieces by the poison-clawed cat, than to suffer one
- instant of acceptance by the resident intellectuals of rec.arts.books."
- [slightly modified; attribution left as an exercise to the reader]
- -- Paul Callahan, callahan@biffvm.cs.jhu.edu --
-