From: "Strong, Lee" <StrongL at MTMC.ARMY.MIL>
To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Burning at the Stake (Not!)
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 10:49:23 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

	Actually, I've often wanted to argue issues with anti-Potterites (or
equivalents) but they never seem to be where I am and I don't go around
looking for trouble to get into.
	My view is that unless the anti-Potterites are coming into your
bookstore (or equivalent) and burning your books, they're not **dangerous**
loons, and getting upset about them is not worth the candle.  A pagan friend
of mine told me about a pagan bookseller who was glad to sell bookburners
all the books they wanted to burn.  He figured (a) the danger of the
bookburners getting the books **banned** was insignificant, (b) the
publisher could always print more copies if a shortage developed, and (c)
the bookburners' money spent as well as anyone else's.  The bookburners
bought their books at his store because he served them kool-aid when they
were picketing him on a hot day.

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Walsh [mailto:MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu]
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2003 10:31 AM
To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Burning at the Stake (Not!)

True enough . . . tell that to the folks who are burning Harry Potter =
books and wanting them banned in schools.  There are loons out there.

mjw

>>> StrongL at MTMC.ARMY.MIL 04/14/03 10:19AM >>>
	(Yawnnn.)
	Gee whiz, Mike, I thought you or Mr. Pullman were talking about
something **controversial**.  People have been "dealing with organized
religion and God in a rather less than complimentary way" for thousands of
years.  Got anything **new** for us to talk about?

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Walsh [mailto:MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu]
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2003 9:38 AM
To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Phillip Pullman news

> StrongL at MTMC.ARMY.MIL 04/14/03 09:20AM
>	(Yawn.)
>	If fictional geography and fictional science are sufficient to get
>people burned at the stake, it'll be a long time before Mr. Pullman's =
turn
>comes up.

He deals with organized religion and god/God, in a rather less than =
complimentary way.

The first book was quite good, the second & third somewhat less so.  But =
=
YMMV.

mjw