Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84 chuqui version 1.7 9/23/84; site nsc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!ihnp4!nsc!chuqui From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Zonker T. Chuqui) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Re: Harlan Ellison Message-ID: <1841@nsc.UUCP> Date: Thu, 8-Nov-84 02:53:33 EST Article-I.D.: nsc.1841 Posted: Thu Nov 8 02:53:33 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 9-Nov-84 08:31:14 EST References: <1605@proper.UUCP> <> Reply-To: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Zonker T. Chuqui) Organization: The Warlocks Cave, Western Annex Lines: 15 Summary: In article <11700028@ea.UUCP> mwm@ea.UUCP writes: >I suppose if what you like is termainally depressing unrelieved morbidness, >Ellision is the writer for you. Personally, I would rather read something >that has at least one little glimmer of humanness somewhere in it. If this is what you want, I suggest Kurt Vonnegut instead. Harlan does have a warmer side (Repent, Harlequin! comes to mind) although even then he bites. Vonnegut is unrepentently depressing. So is Heller, for that matter. chuq -- From the Department of Bistromatics: Chuq Von Rospach {cbosgd,decwrl,fortune,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo}!nsc!chuqui nsc!chuqui@decwrl.ARPA I'd know those eyes from a million years away....