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From: oz@yetti.UUCP (Ozan Yigit)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: The Problems With Science Fiction Today - a reply
Message-ID: <194@yetti.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 5-Jun-85 00:35:25 EDT
Article-I.D.: yetti.194
Posted: Wed Jun  5 00:35:25 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 5-Jun-85 07:16:20 EDT
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Reply-To: oz@yetti.UUCP (Ozan Yigit)
Organization: York University Computer Science
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Summary: 

In article <2139@topaz.ARPA> henry%clemson.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa writes:
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>You throw forth your opinions as if they were fact. They are not. Absolutely
>ALL artistic appreciation is opinion. Nothing else. Just because a majority
	Nonsense !! The often-hazy thing called "QUALITY" does exist, but you
	will not know it until it hits you right on the face. (For edification,
	refer to ZEN_AND_THE_ART_OF_MOTORCYCLE_MAINTENANCE by R. M. Pirsig)
	That is why, Michelangelo is not "just another" sculptor, and that is
	why #_OF_THE_BEAST is suitable for any trashcan, whereas THE_SHEEP_
	LOOK_UP is not, whether or not you may believe otherwise.
>does not make the opinion RIGHT. You have your opinions and I have mine.
	Very good.. now, which one do you think is closer to the TRUTH ???
	(e.g. calling #OFTB a piece of trash vs. calling it a 
	literary masterpiece, to be remembered by generations to come!!)
>
>for enjoyment. If no one read for fun, the publishing industry would be
>practically non-existant. As for science fiction, it would never have gone
>beyond The War of the Worlds (an excellent book, but the field doesn't end
>with that one title).
	Ah, but perhaps we could do just as well, with just half of what
	is published. DOes one have to read a lot of nonsense to have
	fun ???

	Oz	(No.. No.. I do not know anything about 
		the yellow brick road..)
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