Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 11:53:08 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: What I can't read
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

Steve Smith ran this up the flagpole:

>Michael Walsh wrote:
>>
>> Luckily there are boatloads of stuff out there. My 10% and your 10% may
>> have minimal overlap.
>
>That's why there's so much out there.

Cart? Horse?
When I started reading this stuff 9early 60s) , one could read a vast =
percentage of what was published.  There was still stuffto avoid - the US =
reprintsof Fanthorpe come to mind.  But it was doable.

Now, it isn't humanly possible - IMHO - to read such a percentage of =
what's published.  Nor would the Surgeon General recommend trying to such.

> If everybody's taste was the
>same, there'd only be one book.  Boringg
>
>As to my own prejudices, I find Harlan Ellison to be the literary
>equivalent of a finger down the throat, only a lot less pleasant.

Oh, I enjoy Harlan, the writer and the persona.  Having had but a few =
personal encounters with him, he can be perfectly pleasant.   I suspect =
that Ted has had his share of "adventures" regarding Mr Ellison, from =
fanboy to pro.

mjw

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>Steve Smith                                           sgs at aginc.net
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>"Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense."
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