Douglas
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>Today in a pub I was chatting with the Bath WAterstones children
>books manager and we were extoling Philip Pullman. It is a pity
>he couldnt pull all his threads together in the final volume
>but it is still a brilliant piece of work. It seems he is Welsh
>rather than Oxford.
Maybe he didn't pull ALL the threads together (although I'm not sure, as I
don't need that done on the page), but I agree it's a brilliant work,
wonderfully wrought. I found it terribly moving, & truly exciting as
narrative...
Doug
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5
(h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
Cinder of the lexical drift.
Susan Howe
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