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From: mikevp@proper.UUCP (Mike Van Pelt)
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Subject: Re: Yes, *H*A*R*L*A*N* *E*L*L*I*S*O*N*
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Date: Thu, 1-Nov-84 02:49:27 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov  1 02:49:27 1984
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In article <> lasko@regina.DEC writes:
>
>I disagree completely with proper!mikevp.  
>
>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. ... 
>
>Writing Harlan Ellison of as "morbid" is doing him a great injustice.
>
Well, everyone to their own tastes.  I have read only two stories
by Ellison that I liked: "Repent, Harlequin...", and "Pennies off
a Dead Man's Eyes".  I thought "Pennies..." was outstanding.  Hoever, 
everything else I have read of his, is ugly, depressing, and, yes,
morbid.  "I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream" is fairly typical.

The human condition isn't a 100% evil, nasty, sadistic horror, either.