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Subject: Yes, *H*A*R*L*A*N* *E*L*L*I*S*O*N*
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Date: Tue, 30-Oct-84 09:38:43 EST
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I disagree completely with proper!mikevp.  

<SET FLAME/SIMMER>

Harlan Ellison writes about the human condition, which, as much
as some of us might like to believe, isn't a 100% warm, cuddly
and soft place.  If one can't feel sympathy and the pain behind
the characters in the "Paingod" collection, the frustration in
the "Gentleman Junkie..." collection, and the revenge, and 
hatred, and indifference in other stories of his, then I daresay
that you lack the glimmer of "humanness" that you claim to seek.

I'm told that in person, Mr. Ellison is not the most congenial
of people in the world.  So be it.  I judge a person by his
deeds and works, not by his social graces.

His stories are not often optomistic, but they are practically
guaranteed to make you *think*, and maybe reconsider part of the
world around you.  And maybe it just might help you share a 
lonely, depressed evening.

And maybe even survive one.

Writing Harlan Ellison of as "morbid" is doing him a great injustice.


tim lasko  {decvax, allegra, ihnp4, et. al.}!decvax!dec-rhea!dec-regina!lasko
DEC, Maynard, Mass.

Tue 30-Oct-1984 01:24 (Maynard Time)