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   Catawumpus to All   
   Re: Books to read before you die   
   11 Dec 07 06:55:24   
   
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   From: kimmerian@fastmail.fm   
      
   Derek Broughton :   
      
   > Pullman argued ... (c) Lewis writes great criticism, but cops out when it   
   > comes to fantasy - I at least agree partly there, when he said that a better   
   > moral message at the end would have had the children going on to do good in   
   > the world, rather than dieing in a train crash and going to their reward in   
   > the afterlife.   
      
        One day an angry lady stopped me on the street and   
        said she did not like a book I wrote but that if I   
        lived up to the best in me I might write a good   
        Christian novel like _The Cardinal_ by Henry Morton   
        Robinson or perhaps even _The Foundling_ by Cardinal   
        Spellman.   
      
        Walker Percy, from "Notes for a Novel about the End of the   
   World."   
      
   -- Catawumpus   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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