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To: GipperGal

"And there's nothing more tedious and torturous than being trapped inside the world of some author's failed or deficient imagination."

That's true. Sometimes, though, it is not the author's imagination or writing skills that are deficient, but his moral sense.


324 posted on 07/13/2005 9:14:26 PM PDT by dsc
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To: dsc
That's true. Sometimes, though, it is not the author's imagination or writing skills that are deficient, but his moral sense.

Good point. It's even more horrifying when both are deficient! Think of the Marquis de Sade.

328 posted on 07/13/2005 9:22:34 PM PDT by GipperGal
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To: dsc
Sometimes, though, it is not the author's imagination or writing skills that are deficient, but his moral sense.

That can make for a very interesting book, such as Lolita.

394 posted on 07/14/2005 6:53:08 AM PDT by Modernman ("Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made." -Bismarck)
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