Re: Gareth's competition comments


16 Oct 1995 15:22:26 GMT

In article <45rouh$kq6@phakt.usc.edu>,
Jacob Solomon Weinstein <jweinste@phakt.usc.edu> wrote:

>instead of working against each other. At the very least, when you have a
>writer like Dick Clancy whose prose is good but nothing special, the
>prose doesn't get in the way of the story.

Dick Clancy? Tell me you're not trolling here, Jacob. OK, I'll fall for it.
It's Tom Clancy.

And while I'm here, I most definitely agree with Jacob, Dave Baggett, and
others, that IF can potentially be "literary" or "high-brow art" or whatever
you want to call it. There's no logical reason why it cannot be these things,
but there is a strong case for saying that in the past it has not (hardly
ever) been these things.

I eagerly await the first IF {Tolstoy, Fitzgerald, Chekhov, Hemingway}.

Regards,

Jason Noble.

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============================================================== Jason Noble School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences University of Sussex