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From: hultquis@unc.UUCP (Jeffrey P. Hultquist)
Newsgroups: net.books
Subject: clever idea (sort of)
Message-ID: <518@unc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 31-Jan-85 21:49:17 EST
Article-I.D.: unc.518
Posted: Thu Jan 31 21:49:17 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 2-Feb-85 14:44:04 EST
Organization: CS Dept., U. of N. Carolina at Chapel Hill
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  Hey folks!  All of you who have been complaining about
the pornography debate (and I am not too crazy about it myself),
how about tossing in a book title and a few comments about
the thing?

  For instance ... 

  I am about halfway through Thomas Hardy's *Jude the Obscure*,
and I am already prepared to recommend it to everyone.  Even if
it suddenly becomes as dull as a phone book, the first hundred
pages ... wow!  It is about a young laborer who dreams of going
to divinity school (BTW we are in England around 1800 (?)), but
whose dreams are never achieved because society will not allow
him to escape the caste in which it has placed him.  Very 
depressing, but still (or maybe *therefore*) a very enjoyable 
story.

  Now ... will someone who thinks Hardy was a twit please
respond to this?

				Many thanks,
						Jeff Hultquist
                                                UNC chapel hill


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