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From: storer@tigershark.uucp (Martin Storer)
Newsgroups: alt.flame,alt.sex.bondage
Subject: Re: THE SACRIFICE (of the English Language)
Summary: Whatever shall we DO??
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Date: 17 Jan 90 20:34:36 GMT
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In article <37873@apple.Apple.COM> stevenso@Apple.COM (David Stevenson) writes:
>As storytelling, the main problem with The Sacrifice is that Satanism is the
>main character, periodically lunging into the narrative, huffing and puffing and
	[etc., etc.]

>
>As a footnote, I actually enjoyed Mr. Cavanaugh's critique more than Mr. Bond's
>story--not that one had more intrinsic value than the other.

	May I prissily concur with Messrs. Cavanaugh and Stevenson that
	Mr. Bond is probably not the sort that holds his little finger
	crooked as he sips his tea in the parlor, or indeed, parlour.
	How can such an undesirable, disturbing chap write anything of
	"intrinsic value"?  Certainly, we decent folk may cluck our
	tongues as we read the cogent critiques of Mr. B.'s work,
	simpering as we digest a particularly perceptive point; their
	value lies in our edification.

	Mr. Bond is a naughty one.  This man is teaching *linguistics*
	to our *children*!  Net.consternation--whatever shall we DO??


			Marty