Posts by Paul Litterick
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Thanks everyone else, you were a hoot.
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Thanks Russell, it was a hoot.
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Hell yes. There is, not far from us, a school in a very wealthy neighbourhood that has a nasty reputation for being actively hostile towards special-needs children. They really don't want them spoiling things.
Funny coincidence, we have an Education Minister like that. She was on One in Five a while back, saying that the special needs kids needed to be schooled separately and observing that the Autistic kids could find a normal school environment very distressing.
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"ambitious parents"
A chill runs down my spine.
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Let's talk about this respect you might have...
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They got Robyn. She used to be so alive, so iconoclastic. Now she talks about making your own Twitter experience.
Where will this madness take us?
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K. Let's be friends. Get well soon.
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I wasn't dissin' your posse, bro, I wasn't saying that your gang reads the wrong books; I wasn't making any reference to the reading tastes of anyone on these pages. You have chosen to take it that way. I was talking about the way general tastes have changed and how this benefits the publishing industry. And your charge of condescension is plain flat wrong.
And thanks for the offer of Intervention but I'll pass. Assimilate someone else.
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Giovanni, you are still doing that fact and opinion thing again. The fact of Eco liking pulp doesn't close the case. It is just another opinion. I am sure Eco would not claim otherwise. Yours is an argument from authority. And the fact of Dickens and Dumas writing serials says nothing, other than it is not a new practice. In any case, Dickens wrote single novels as serial chapters in magazines, not multi-volume sagas.
Accusing me of plunging ugly depths of condescension for recommending an author (at the invitation of another poster) is a bit rich, and a lot insulting. The fact that he is one of the best authors of the last century is by the by. I was asked to recommend some reading. I did. And when did I say I objected to Science Fiction? The last novel I read was The Kraken Wakes, and very good it was too. And did I say I objected to fables? I mentioned Calvino in part because he worked with other genres, including Sci-Fi.
And please, enough of the 'we' and the 'you.' This is not a school playground.
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Sacha, all I did was to quote some Eliot, with reference to Paul coming as his avatar. I thought the subject of what we will wear on Thursday had played itself out, but we can go back there if you wish.