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   Öjevind Lång to All   
   Re: Books to read before you die   
   16 Dec 07 01:06:26   
   
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   From: bredband.net@ojevind.lang   
      
   "Catawumpus"  skrev i meddelandet   
   news:kimmerian-5E20A3.01550811122007@news.verizon.net...   
   > Derek Broughton :   
      
   [snip]   
      
   >     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."   
      
   Those two can't hold a candle to "The Archbishop" by Pope Benedict XVI, not   
   to mention "The Pope" by God.   
      
   Öjevind   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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