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   Dirk Thierbach to Steve Hayes   
   Re: "J.K. Rowling among the Inklings"   
   18 Oct 10 09:29:55   
   
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   From: dthierbach@usenet.arcornews.de   
      
   Steve Hayes  wrote:   
   > On Sun, 17 Oct 2010 22:34:10 +0200, Troels Forchhammer   
   >  wrote:   
      
   >>Dirk said that   
   >>||| I guess to answer this question one would first have to agree   
   >>||| what this "tradition" is in the first place.   
   >>which I think is a very relevant question -- what, if anything, is   
   >>the 'tradition of the Inklings'?   
      
   > One of their traditions was reading their work to each other.   
      
   Well, I hardly think that the original author even thought remotely   
   about this aspect when he stated that "Rowling writes in the tradition   
   of the inklings".   
      
   - Dirk   
      
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