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From: "paul murphy" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: 13 November 2002 09:03
Subject: Re: Padraic Fallon
| you must remember
sic
| that the quality or lack of it must be set in the context of a young
reading audience. what young people think is 'good' is entirely different
from adult notions.
entirely? I doubt it. Until a certain age there can be differences given
the relative difference unquote of children from adults; but even then, and
certainly later, it may be no more than a lack of knowledge resulting from a
lack of reading
| setting out to accomplish such a task is a further admission that Archer
is a successful writer
_success_ in this sense surely merely means acting without regard to the
social consequences of that action and has nothing to do with the quality
of the writing
| and the author of this study wasn't.
no that doesnt follow at all
| Just because one has a doctorate or a Chair doesn't offer on! e a blank
cheque to talk unmitigated nonsense,
of course not, but what you describe does not appear to be unmitigated
nonsense
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