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From: BARD@MIT-XX.ARPA
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Subject: Re: SF-LOVERS Digest   V10 #342
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Date: Fri, 30-Aug-85 01:11:08 EDT
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From: Bard Bloom <BARD@MIT-XX.ARPA>


>  But I'm
>  also secure enough to recognize that some people have put a lot of
>  work into reading the "Cantos" and are deeply rewarded for their
>  efforts. It's just not my cup of tea. Why do you and some of your
>  cohorts of a similar mind in this group refuse to grant us "Art
>  Snobs" a similar courtesy?

My first impressions of this firefight were that various "Art Snobs" were
not granting "Good-Read Snobs" (to use a parallel term without intending
either term to be especially accurate) that right; that they were being
rather extreme in their claims that the standards of "Art" were the only
worthy ones.  Since then, much umbrage has been given, and much taken;
probably most  of the lack of courtesy is reaction to excessive nastiness of
the other side.  It can't be  intended personally, for we are all of us
honorable men.

Of course, the battle has been going on for longer than this newsgroup has
existed, and probably predates half of the world's major religions as well.
(-; maybe it is one of them ;-)

But then, we're having fun trying to stuff each other in our favorite
teacups.

Pax VAXque vobiscum,
   Bard
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