Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 09:52:59 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <mjw at press.jhu.edu>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>, <wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [WSFA] XKCD on "Anathem" ??
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

http://xkcd.com/483/

At 980 pages ain't no way I'm reading this in time for Hugo voting.  Nope, =
no way.  Life is too short.

At one point I thought the best way to stop the proliferation of Big Fat =
Genre Novels was the force people to use a quill pen.

But then I thought of Dickens, Trollope, and Gibbons.

"Ah Mr. Gibbon, another damned, fat, square book. Always, scribble, =
scribble, scribble, eh?"

(The Duke of Gloucester, on being presented with Volume 2 of The Decline =
and Fall of the Roman Empire.)

mjw