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- From: accran@gsusgi2.gsu.edu (Robert Nehmer)
- Subject: Re: US NATIONAL EPIC
- Message-ID: <accran.721675483@gsusgi1.gsu.edu>
- Organization: Georgia State University
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- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 17:24:43 GMT
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- "THOMAS M. RICKS" <RICKS@VILLVM.BITNET> writes:
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- >ution, etc. none of the students felt we had found the US National Epic.
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- >Any ideas, suggestions or comments - if we have no national epic, why not?
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- I was told in high school that _John Brown's Body_ by Stephan Vincent
- Bennet [sp?] was written as the national epic, at least in the author's
- own mind. It never caught on. But I enjoyed it.
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- Cheers
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