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To: Dr. Eckleburg

Hmm, I see. I haven't watched TV in years, and I know very little about 19th century occult. I did detect a lot of astral nastiness, and efforts to attract children to witchcraft and magic, of a particularly vulgar, slightly obscene, selfish, and almost prurient kind.

Did you read any of them? If so, do you remember the part where the children are working in the greenhouse, repotting mandrake plants? The plants they pull up are like little screaming babies, really sickening.

Before I read them, I thought they might be like Narnia books. Worlds apart.

Interesting about how she couldn't have scribbled them on napkins. Now I want to find out about her beliefs and background, what she studied, and anything else she's written.


65 posted on 06/22/2004 10:24:47 PM PDT by little jeremiah (http://www.mikegabbard.com - a REAL conservative running for Congress from Hawaii!)
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To: little jeremiah
I read the first one, like you, to see what it was about. Your reviews are right-on.

Her bio seems to have been swept clean. A few years ago some errant ex-husband started clamoring around, but he's disappeared and she's remarried.

And another woman author tried to sue her, saying she had written a series of books exactly like HP just a few years before. I read some of the comparisons and they were practically identical. She's gone now, too, no doubt generously bought off.

Rowling's now the second richest woman in Great Britain.

68 posted on 06/22/2004 11:17:22 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg (There are very few shades of gray.)
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