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- From: bf455@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Bonita Kale)
- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Subject: Re: Publishing Children's Books?
- Date: 10 Sep 1992 18:56:51 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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- References: <1992Sep10.165144.27911@syma.sussex.ac.uk> <1992Sep9.125736.18573@syma.sussex.ac.uk> <1992Sep9.201123.15884@sqwest.wimsey.bc.ca> <BuD751.G6B@unx.sas.com>
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- In a previous article, mapd1@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Nigel Ling) says:
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- Greene must have written his
- >childrens stuff very late in life. What I know of him, he probably
- >wrote them in response (semi-reluctant?) to requests to tell his
- >grandchildren stories ("You're a writer aren't you?")
- >I certainly wouldn't sell him short though. For my money Graham Greene
- >is amongst the best (and also my inspiration). However, I very much
- >suspect that he would not have called his children's work 'serious',
- >as he distinguished his 'entertainments' from 'serious novels'.
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- I was in my mid-forties before I realized that perfectly nice people, whom
- one could enjoy talking to, used the term "serious writing" without meaning
- it in jest. I had taken it for granted that a person who aimed at "art" or
- "seriousness" was a figure of fun.
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- I still object very strongly to the notion that some of us are "serious"
- while the rest are making rude noises to amuse the masses (who obviously
- cannot like anything good). But I am willing to acknowledge that writing
- may be untainted by the idiotic notions of the writer, even by that
- particular idiotic notion.
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- Bonita Kale
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