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- Subject: Re: Publishing Children's Books?
- Organization: The Somewhat Contagious Operation, Inc.
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 12:51:21 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.125121.23795@sco.COM>
- References: <1992Sep8.093720.26059@reed.edu> <1992Sep9.125736.18573@syma.sussex.ac.uk> <1992Sep9.201123.15884@sqwest.wimsey.bc.ca>
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- In article <1992Sep9.201123.15884@sqwest.wimsey.bc.ca> marcy@sqwest.wimsey.bc.ca (Marcy Thompson) writes:
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- >Mildly related question: is there *any* sort of writing whose practitioners
- >*don't* find themselves routinely accused of not being serious?
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- Humourists.
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- Every time I see a review of the latest Terry Pratchett or Douglas Adams,
- the reviewer bends over backwards to say how deeply serious a business
- humour is.
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- And no, I'm not kidding.
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