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From: lex@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Cruel Puppet)
Newsgroups: alt.flame,alt.sex.bondage
Subject: Re: THE SACRIFICE (of the English Language)
Summary: As long as everybody is nitpicking.....
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Date: 19 Jan 90 10:51:17 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
>shoving the real characters aside.  At best this breaks the narrative flow (a 
>bad thing) and at worst it alienates the reader (a very bad thing).  It is very
>difficult, if not impossible, to write a successful story about an -ism.  That

  Does this include "Sado-Masochism"?

Just As long as I'm here, I thought Mr. Cavanaugh's posting was far more
pretentious than Mr. Bond's story.  I found the story interesting, unlike
the posting, and it seemed to me that at least the story made no pretensions
of being grammatically correct, unlike the equally incorrect critique (or
"flame").

   I thought that, at worst, Mr. Bond's story was guilty of being somewhat 
cloudy and hard to read in a few places.

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