In message <[log in to unmask]>, Jon Corelis
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> I myself consider it a principle of writers' honor that if one is
>going to get upset by bad, unfair, or even abusive reviews, then one has
>no business publishing in the first place.
But, equally, if a writer does abuse others then he shouldn't be too
surprised if they react. There's a story Gavin Selerie dug up about
Geoffrey Grigson asking Edith Sitwell to protect him from Roy Campbell,
whose response to one of GG's more scurrilous attacks was to threaten to
beat the daylights out of him. I don't suggest this was an honourable
thing to do but it would be foolish to forget that humans can be a bit
like that. There's a passing relevance in the story in that GG's
tactics, particularly in New Verse days (predating this particular
episode), were not unlike AD's. What ES did about it I can't remember:
handbagged the pair of them, perhaps.
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