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From: jeand@ihlpg.UUCP (AMBAR)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Authorial notes
Message-ID: <955@ihlpg.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 25-Jul-85 13:47:13 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 25 13:47:13 1985
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> In article <228@hyper.UUCP> brust@hyper.UUCP (Steven Brust) writes:
> >I can't hold back on this one.  I have rarely been
> >more put off by anything I read than I was by the
> >afterword to On A Pale Horse.
> 
> Agreed. I think it was Lester Del Rey who said that stories ought to live
> or die by themselves, not by their introductory notes. For every author
> note I read in a book or story, I read two or three that drive me up the
> wall (I wasn't particularly thrilled to hear all about harlan ellison's
> vasectomy in Croatoan, for example...)

Hmmm.  I agree that the *story* should not be judged with (or in light of)
its introductory notes.  On the other hand, as a would-be author (I practice
on the net community at large, heh heh), I am fascinated by anything an
author has to say about what was going through his/her head while writing...
-- 
					AMBAR
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