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From: lieser@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com (Ed Lieser)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
Subject: Re: Once I put this book down, I could not pick it up again.
Date: 11 Oct 92 18:12:19 EST
Organization: Test PLease ignore

In article <CB.92Oct9164048@tamarack13.timbuk>, cb@tamarack13.timbuk (Chris Brewster) writes:
>                                                              This is
> another case of someone including one of my favorites on this thread.

Speaking of which, "Catch-22" often appears on lists of favorite books
for various people.  I made it about halfway through, and finally got
so frustrated I quit.  The "joke" was funny at first, but eventually
became very tiring and finally, irritating.  I guess I felt the book
was at least twice as long as it should have been.  I doubt I'll pick
this one up again - too much other stuff to read.

Ed Lieser
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From: ag@sics.se (Anders G|ransson)
Subject: Re: Arthur Rimbaud, is that you?????
Organization: GRAMMA
	<1992Oct13.161112.17082@grebyn.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 20:13:29 GMT

In article <1992Oct13.161112.17082@grebyn.com> fi@grebyn.com (Fiona Webster) writes:

   Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
   From: fi@grebyn.com (Fiona Webster)
   Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 16:11:12 GMT
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(text omitted)

   More references available on request.  Patti Smith is a major thing
   of mine.  She's led me in several interesting directions.  


                                                           --Fiona

I too like Patti Smith. I have been wondering what can be made
of the inscription on her first album:

  Charms, sweet angels you've made me no longer afraid of death.

Perhaps you would care to say something on this?

best regards Anders
--


If you see Saint Annie, please tell her - Thanks a lot.
From: fuller@athena.cs.uga.edu (James P. H. Fuller)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
Subject: Re: Once I put this book down, I could not pick it up.
Date: 8 Oct 92 20:56:34 GMT
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens

amnell@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Marko Amnell) writes:

>Well, surely the most unreadable `good' book in English (if one can call
>it English) is _Finnegans Wake_, right?  Or else _Beowulf_.

     The greatest interest in this thread is seeing that there *really* 
is no accounting for taste.  I was about to defend _A Confederacy of
Dunces_, which I thought was very funny, but I'd rather save that and
speak up for the Bear-guy.  I LOVE _Beowulf_.  The range of emotional colors
in _Beowulf_ is exactly the same as in Robert E. Howard's Conan novels,
which I also love for precisely the same low, bestial reasons.  Beowulf
and Conan alike transport you back to the days when you *could* solve all
your major problems with a grunt and a bludgeon.   So sue me.....

                                             -- jf
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From: marcy@sqwest.wimsey.bc.ca (Marcy Thompson)
Subject: Re: Once I put this book down, I could not pick it up again.
Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Surrey, British Columbia, CANADA
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 01:02:55 GMT

In a recent rec.arts.books article, Lauren L. Crawford wrote:
>
>Which leads me to yet another spinoff of this thread:  What books would
>you rather hear discussed than have to read yourself?  This one tops my
>list.  I've really enjoyed the discussions I've both listened to and
>participated in about it, but the book itself is mighty slow going.  

Anything by Dickens. _To_the_Lighthouse_. _Tess_of_the_d'Urbervilles_.

Marcy

-- 

Marcy Thompson		
  SoftQuad (West)			
    marcy@sqwest.wimsey.bc.ca (preferred) or marcy@sq.com
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From: mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin)
Subject: Re: Clarification
Originator: mnemonic@eff.org
Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 12:00:54 GMT

In article <9210160358.AA04733@cfdev1.shearson.com> mtaranto@shearson.com (Mark Taranto) writes:
 
>And since we are correcting ourselves, I'll point out that when I said I
>knew little about Des Cartes, I really meant Descartes -- thus proving my
>point.  
> 
>As for Philolog's "present-day," I have noticed that universities are
>changing the names of "Contemporary Philosophy" courses to "20th Century
>Philosophy" courses.  Soon, there shall be a new name.

I see that in this posting Mark is putting Des Cartes before the courses.


--Mike



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From: mbvg9741@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (M. Vincent Busenbark )
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
Subject: Alaska (books sought)
Date: 12 Oct 92 16:21:23 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.Bw0o3o.9rp
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana


I may be moving to Alaska in less than a year, and would
appreciate information about works of literature that focus 
on life in the state, primarily among the inuit or native Alaskans.
(I don't suppose it has to be limited to the Inuit in Alaska,
by the way.)

Thanks for any assistance.

-Vincent (mbvg9741@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu)
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From: francis@oas.stanford.edu (Francis Muir)
Subject: Re: Once I put this book down, I could not pick it up again.
Organization: Stanford Exploration Project
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 17:32:43 GMT

ihardy has taken quite a beating in this thread -- particularly *Jude the 
Obscure*.  For those who want their Hardy Lite let me recommend the short 
stories of H. E. Bates. Bates writes about the same places and, to some 
extent, the same people as Hardy, but his style is much more accessible, and
his sense of place is more acute. 

							Fido
From: mtaranto@shearson.com (Mark Taranto)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
Subject: Re: Sburgfort's Sleuthing
Date: 10 Oct 92 18:31:43 GMT


Francis Muir writes:
 
        The One & Only "Genuine" Schenone writes of Smugfart Smythe:
 
                Curses, man! Get the facts straight. My name is spelled
                "Schenone," not "Schonone." [...] And I was not sitting
                to your right reading _Guns of August_. That was, uh,
                what's-her-name.
 
                I was the voluptuous femme fatale seated on the floor,
                licking the last drops of wine from my glass.
 
        Which wine was not, Smug Fart, Mouton Cadet, but a rather elegant
        offering from Mouton-Rothchild dedicated by the baron to his good
        lady wife, Phillipe de Rothchild. What was the year? '84? '86?
 
 
But Mr Muir and Ms Schenone forget that Sburgfort's effort is a result
of my complaint that there were too many facts coming out about the
r.a.b.fest, and that I didn't want FACTS, I wanted ART.
 
I certainly didn;t complain that he had me wearing creased grey slacks
instead of the blue jeans which I wore on the video, nor did I complain
that he made me taller than I am.  We already KNEW that Francis would never
serve the low-end Mouton Cadet -- let's all let Sburgfort get on with the
ART.  
 
And "Smug Fart" -- REALLY!  One would thing Francis had been taking lessons
from JW.
 
Mark
From: ncramer@bbn.com (Nichael Cramer)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
Subject: Re: 1992 Nobel Prize
Date: 8 Oct 92 16:49:44 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.ld8pl8INN3l5
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ccsdgdc@gdr.bath.ac.uk (Douglas Clark) writes:
>Derek Walcott is generally acknowledged to be the finest poet currently
>writing in English. 

Excuse me?

By whom?

>In English he is a bigger talent than Brodsky.

I'm willing to grant you that.

NICHAEL  
nichael@bbn.com  --                Bush/Gorbachev: One Down, One to Go
From: mtaranto@shearson.com (Mark Taranto)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
Subject: Re: More Notes from the Decline
Date: 7 Oct 92 20:56:21 GMT


jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John McCarthy) writes:
 
> I bought a "Split wood not atoms" sticker and reversed it so it
> read "Split atoms, not wood".  It was impossible to keep one on
> my car, since it evidently gave offense.
 
I'm surprised.  I thought Professor McCarthy was only interested in
splitting hairs.
 
Mark
From: heath@athena.cs.uga.edu (Terrance Heath)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
Subject: Re: Not exaclty a repentance....
Date: 7 Oct 92 20:58:10 GMT
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens

In article <1992Oct7.172021.22180@cmcl2.nyu.edu> cruz@lab.ultra.nyu.edu (Nancy Cruz) writes:
>In article <1992Oct6.223331.5101@athena.cs.uga.edu> heath@athena.cs.uga.edu (Terrance Heath) writes:
>>
>>	I just thought I'd post thhis here for the amusement of those
>>who remember my rantings during the "Canon" thread. I am currently
>>taking yet another class toward my English degree, and this time its
>>"18th Century Prose and Poetry" (to fulfill the requirement that I
>>take at least three classes on pre-1800 English lit).  We're reading
>>Pope, Dryden, Swift, Defoe and a coupla others whose names escape me
>>right now.  
>
>
>Uuuggghhhh!  I am glad your enjoying it.  I found that period the most
>pedantic, boring...
>
>Althought I didn't like the professor, I dont think that made much of
>a difference.

	What hooked me was the history and theological schisms of the
time. Theology is one of my favorite things to discuss/argue, and when
John Dryden, in "Absalom and Achitophel", linked monarchy democracy
and original sin, I was intruigued (I also can't spell.)
	It seems his point was as follows : Democracy is a
manifestation of Human Arrogance.



-- 
"Black men loving black men is THE revolutionary act!"
			-Joseph Beam_
Terrance Heath 
heath@athena.cs.uga.edu
From: ziauddin@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (Tasneem Ziauddin)
Subject: Question about diaries of Anais Nin
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 18:45:37 GMT

I've recently become interested in Anais Nin and her diaries.  I've finished
the first volume of her early diaries and am almost done with the second
volume.  I noticed, however, that this second volume ends in 1922 and the
first volume (or at least the one marked as the first volume) begins in
1931.  Is there a volume that covers these years?

Also, can someone recommend a good biography of Anais Nin and possibly a
work that concentrates on her marriage.

Thanks in advance,
Tasneem
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From: sehari@iastate.edu (Babak Sehari)
Subject: Re: REWARD OF $US100 TO END FATWAH ON RUSHDIE
Originator: sehari@vincent2.iastate.edu
Keywords: Rushdie,fatwah
Organization: Iowa State University of Science and Technology, Ames, Iowa.
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 18:33:20 GMT

In <1b6hbeINNl89@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> wojdylo@maths.uwa.oz.au (INFIDEL) writes:



>		****** CASH REWARD  ****** 



>I HEREBY PLEDGE $US 100 IN FAVOUR OF ANY PARTY SUCCESSFUL IN
>BRINGING ABOUT THE END OF THE FATWAH IMPOSED BY THE LATE SPIRITUAL
>LEADER OF IRAN, THE AYATOLLAH KHOMEINI, ON THE BRITISH WRITER SALMAN
>RUSHDIE.

>THE PROCEEDS ARE WAIVED IN THE CASE OF:

>(A) THE EVENT OF THE DEATH OF SALMAN RUSHDIE ON OR BEFORE THE DATE ONE
>YEAR AFTER THE LIFTING OF THE FATWAH;

>(B) THE SUCCESSFUL PARTY BEING RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MAINTAINING OF, 
>OR CONNECTED WITH IN ANY OTHER WAY, THE FATWAH AS OF THIS DAY, OCTOBER 9, 1992;

>(C) ABSENCE OF PROOF SUBSTANTIATING THE PARTY'S CLAIMS.



>THE PARTY MAY RESORT TO WHICHEVER MEANS ARE NECESSARY TO ACHIEVE THE AIM.



>Signed,
>John Wojdylo
>Melbourne, Australia
>October 9, 1992

You are very cheap man! As of now, there is a Reward of more than
$1,000,000,000US for the guy's head.  Dead or alive.

                   With highest regards,
                        Babak   Sehari.
                        
-- 
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From: dlsteven@nyx.cs.du.edu (Doug Stevens)
Subject: Stephen King "The Dark Tower"
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Distribution: na
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 92 15:03:29 GMT


Does anyone know if the fourth book in Stephen King's "The Dark Tower"
series is due out soon?


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From: francis@oas.stanford.edu (Francis Muir)
Subject: Re: SF Rails (was: Whats the title/Author of this story
Organization: Stanford Exploration Project
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 02:42:54 GMT

Courtenay Footman writes:

	For a very futuristic railroad, try "Rails across the Galaxy", 
	by Offutt and Lyon (Lyons?).  It was serialized in Analog, and 
	I have never seen a book edition.

And as an antidote there is nothing quite like E. Nesbit's *The Railway
Children*.

							Fido
From: ath@linkoping.trab.se (Anders Thulin)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
Subject: Re: mutinies (was Re: WWII Novels?)
Date: 11 Oct 92 10:29:08 GMT
Organization: Telia Research AB, Teknikringen 2B, S-583 30 Linkoping, Sweden


    In article <1992Sep30.175245.4798@nas.nasa.gov> wismith@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (William R. Smith) writes:
    >	"There NEVER
    >	was a mutiny on an American ship!" and don't you forget it.  

I doubt that. I'm willing to believe that there have been no munity on
a US ship, though.

-- 
Anders Thulin       ath@linkoping.trab.se 	013-23 55 32
Telia Research AB, Teknikringen 2B, S-583 30 Linkoping, Sweden
From: kat@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Flame's Passion)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
Subject: Re: Fictitious Fiction
Date: 14 Oct 1992 02:13:18 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: bigwpi.wpi.edu
Keywords: Morgenstern, Garp, Trout

In article <1992Oct13.214735.16933@eff.org> mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin) writes:
>In article <1bfbaqINNjl2@bigboote.WPI.EDU> I wrote:
>
>>A.S. Byatt's book _Possession_ (I think) makes reference to poets and poems
>>that never existed.  I'm not sure, though.  The story centers around a study
>>of Randolph Ash and his affair with Christabel LaMotte.  This study was done
>>by the two main characters.  Anyway, I'm not sure if Ash and Lamotte are
>>fake or not... Byatt makes them quite believable.
>
>They are, in fact, invented poets.
>
>>Anyone else read this? I found this to be a fascinating book.  It combines
>>a good story with some wonderful poetry.
>
>The poetry could be better; the story is truly wonderful.
>
>
I probably should have asked this the first time, but has anyone read anything
else by Byatt. If so, did they measure up to _Possession_ (or if you didn't
read that) what was your opinion of it?

kat
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From: matt@physics.berkeley.edu (Matt Austern)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
Subject: Re: Once I put this book down, I could not pick it up again.
Date: 8 Oct 92 11:53:49
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (Theoretical Physics Group)
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In-reply-to: jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com's message of 8 Oct 92 13:39:43 GMT

In article <7071@transfer.stratus.com> jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com (Jim Mann) writes:

> By the way, I've read very little of the Bronte sisters, but the
> one novel I did read (Jane Eyre) I liked a lot. I think it
> was a very good book.  One of these days (soon, I hope) I'll read
> more.

It's odd, actually---that's true of most people, too.  Most of us just
read one book by Emily Bronte and one book by Charlotte Bronte.  You
could very easily go though life without noticing that the family had
produced more than those two books.

I only recently read my second Charlotte Bronte book (_Vilette_), and
then only when somebody pointed out how odd it was that one of her
books so overshadowed all the rest.  It's much darker than _Jane
Eyre_, and in some ways bitter.  It also plays more tricks with
narration than I am accustomed to in books from that era.  It is hard
to understand why it has been so neglected relative to _Jane Eyre_.

Now I just have to read the rest of Charlotte Bronte's books...
--
Matthew Austern                   Just keep yelling until you attract a
(510) 644-2618                    crowd, then a constituency, a movement, a
austern@lbl.bitnet                faction, an army!  If you don't have any
matt@physics.berkeley.edu         solutions, become a part of the problem!
From: hhenderson@vax.clarku.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
Subject: RE: Ted Williams (was Re: Baseball etc. etc.)
Date: 14 Oct 92 04:50:54 GMT
Organization: Clark University

>From:   duffey@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Thomas Duffey)
>
>>kate@cactus.org (Katherine M. Catmull) writes:
>>
>>Speaking of Ted Williams and _Ball Four_ (weren't we?), I treasure the
>>mantra Bouton describes hearing during Williams' batting practice:
>>
>>(Muttered under his breath): "I'm Ted fucking WILLIAMS" --smash--
>>"of the major fucking LEAGUES"--smash-- etc.

I never received your original posting on this subject, unfortunately,
so I missed any other observations you may have made.  

Thomas D. is right, Williams would scream this at the top of his lungs,
but the wording recorded in "Ball Four" is a little different, and
I think more poetic, in its way.  

Ted's litany, accompanied by line drives:

"My name is Ted fucking Williams and I'm the greatest hitter in baseball."
	(blam)
"Jesus H. Christ himself couldn't get me out."
	(smash)
"Here comes Jim Bunning, Jim fucking Bunning and that little shit
slider of his."
	(blam)
"He doesn't really think he can get me out with that shit!"
	(wham)
"I'm Ted fucking Williams!"
	(smash)

>I use it myself when in serious need.
>
>Kate

Do you bat left or right?

Heather
HHENDERSON@vax.clarku.edu
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From: alison@wsrcc.com (Alison Chaiken)
Subject: Re: Literature Students/Small World
Organization: W S Rupprecht Computer Consulting, Fremont CA
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 05:02:21 GMT

>In article <70032@hydra.gatech.EDU> barclay@RAIL9000.gatech.edu (Barclay Blanchard) writes:
>>Our class is getting more interesting.  I didn't like _Dubliners_ until we
>>discussed it in class and our professor pointed out that the style reflects
>>how Joyce saw Dublin... bleak, paralyzed, a place where not much happens
>>(in an "event" sense).

I read _Dubliners_ and I still don't like it.  I'd place it on the
list of the "Most Disappointing Classics of All Time," along with
_Lolita_ (trash, and I still didn't like it) and _The Turn of the
Screw_ (makes _Silas Marner_ look like a thriller).  I simply failed
to see the point of most of the stories, including "The Dead."  Two
boys meet a child molester and are repelled by him, so what? etc.
_Dubliners_ is the book that Ann Beattie would write if she lived in
Joyce's time.     I didn't like _Portrait of the Artist_, either.

On another topic altogether, has anyone read Al Gore's book?


-- 
Alison Chaiken 				alison@wsrcc.com
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From: kabir@kabir.Eng.Sun.COM (Ihtisham Kabir)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
Subject: Mathiessen?
Date: 17 Oct 92 01:07:13 GMT
Reply-To: kabir@kabir.Eng.Sun.COM
Distribution: ba
Organization: Sun Microsystems
NNTP-Posting-Host: kabir

I read somewhere within the last week that Peter Mathiessen
will be reading from his work in San Jose. I lost the paper
I read it in.

Can anyone tell me where and when he will be reading?
I hope I didn't miss him. 

Thanks,

- Ihtisham Kabir
kabir@sun.com
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
From: cb@tamarack13.timbuk (Chris Brewster)
Subject: Re: Once I put this book down, I could not pick it up again.
In-reply-to: mworley@mathcs.emory.edu's message of 8 Oct 92 12:40:58 GMT
Organization: pubs
	<1992Oct8.004432.15349@raven.alaska.edu> <9719@emory.mathcs.emory.edu>
Date: 8 Oct 92 10:45:55 CDT

Mark Taranto:
   > >As for Kuhn -- the book is THE STRUCTURE OF SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION.  It
   > >isn't that Kuhn repeats himself -- it is that he uses the same word
   > >(paradigm) to mean many different things.  I don't think much of him,
   > >either.  I would hope that people who are put off by Kuhn do not think him
   > >representative of the Philosophy of Science in general.  I've liked much
   > >of what I've read in the field, other than Kuhn.

Meg Worley:
   Are you begging to be asked what you've read in the field you liked?  Very
   well, I beg you:  Tell us what your nominees for fine books on the subject
   are (and cheering words on Churchland's *Neurocomputational Nonsense* are
   particularly sought).

My nomination is Karl Popper: Logic of Scientific Discovery, the Open
Universe.  This guy is good.

Chris Brewster
cb@cray.com

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From: spg@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Stephen P. Guthrie)
Subject: 1992 Nobel Prize
Originator: spg@Xenon.Stanford.EDU
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 13:22:10 GMT

Just announced: winner of 1992 Nobel Prize for Literature is
 
      Derek Walcott, from the Caribbean island nation of St.Lucia

My question: who the heck is this? I've never heard of him before?
Is he a poet? novelist? Are his books in print? I don't recall ever
seeing any?
From: cruz@lab.ultra.nyu.edu (Nancy Cruz)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
Subject: Re: She's baaaaack.....Camille Paglia
Date: 7 Oct 92 16:48:01 GMT
Article-I.D.: cmcl2.1992Oct7.164801.20441
Organization: New York University Ultracomputer Research Lab

In article <1992Oct6.201421.22594@eff.org> mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin) writes:
>In article <1992Oct6.185712.17884@cmcl2.nyu.edu> cruz@lab.ultra.nyu.edu (Nancy Cruz) writes:
>
>>I think the point is "who cares?"  It doesn't exactly make for a
>>profound read...
>
>I don't think Paglia meant for her Madonna pieces to be "profound reads."
>
>
>--Mike

From what I've seen and heard of her, she considers just about
thought she has profound.

Nancy
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From: lizi@ocf.berkeley.edu (Cosma R. Shalizi)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
Subject: Re: Once I put this book down, I could not pick it up.
Date: 9 Oct 1992 00:30:56 GMT
Organization: Vampire Research Group at Berkeley :)
NNTP-Posting-Host: whirlwind.berkeley.edu

In article <1992Oct8.163048.473@klaava.Helsinki.FI> amnell@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Marko Amnell) writes:
>Well, surely the most unreadable `good' book in English (if one can call
>it English) is _Finnegans Wake_, right?  Or else _Beowulf_.
>Marko Amnell
>amnell@klaava.helsinki.fi
    Well, it's definitely _not_ _Beowolf_ - at least if you read it in modern
English translation. I must have read it three or four times in high
school...
	Cosma Rohilla Shalizi
	In Real Life: lizi@ocf.berkeley.edu
	larval physicist & full-time biblophiliac
-- 
"Apart from hydrogen, the most common thing in the universe is stupidity."
-Harlan Ellison, _An Edge in My Voice_
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From: mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin)
Subject: Re: Exit Shakespeare....
Originator: mnemonic@eff.org
Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 03:10:15 GMT

In article <5381@balrog.ctron.com> mattb@olympus.ctron.com (Matt Brown) writes:

>On another front, I always wondered why Shakespeare never did anything with
>the Arthurian legends in play form.

Lear's Fool alludes to the Arthurian legends in a precognitive flash
(Lear supposedly precedes Arthur).


--Mike



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