XPost: rec.arts.books.childrens, alt.books.cs-lewis, alt.usage.english   
   From: kirshenbaum@hpl.hp.com   
      
   JF  writes:   
      
   > Dan Drake  writes   
   >>JF  wrote:   
   >   
   >>> That is stupid advice! Read Jack Lewis's opening paragraphs in   
   >>> 'The Magician's Nephew' as to why it's important to read it first!   
   >   
   >> It is common in some, like the Tolkien group, to call each other's   
   >>ideas -- even to call each other -- stupid or worse; but it is not   
   >>so in alt.books.cs-lewis.   
   >   
   > Actually, old fruit, if you read my words with great care, moving   
   > your lips at the if it helps, you will make the astonishing   
   > discovery that I didn't call Steve 'stupid' --   
      
   Uh, James?  If you read that again, you may well find that it was   
   never asserted that you had.  The reference was to "[calling] each   
   other's ideas ... stupid or worse", which "That is stupid advice!"   
   would seem to be a fine example of.   
      
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