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From: rwl@uvacs.UUCP (Ray Lubinsky)
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Subject: Re: THE PROBLEMS OFF SCIENCE FICTION TODAY, PART IV
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Date: Mon, 10-Jun-85 21:12:27 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 10 21:12:27 1985
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> in "Helliconia Summer" he described the last breaths of dying men as
> "apostrophes on the possessive case of life". *That* is great writing.

No, it's not.  Strange juxtapositions of words that appear to say something
profound are not examples of good writing, just the mummery of a wordsmith
who mispreceives the meaning of art.
-- 

Ray Lubinsky		     University of Virginia, Dept. of Computer Science
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