XPost: alt.books.cs-lewis, alt.usage.english, rec.arts.books.childrens   
   From: dd@dandrake.com   
      
   On Tue, 2 May 2006 21:56:19 UTC, JF  wrote:   
      
   > X-No-Archive: yes   
   > In message , Dan Drake   
   >  writes   
   > >On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 09:23:17 UTC, 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' -- I rarely use personal insults and when I   
   > do, it is usually because some half-arsed twot has taken a pot at me   
   > first; I said it of his advice. Now FOADIACIEA.   
   >   
      
   What an amazing conincidence! Now, if _you_ would condescend to read what   
   _I_ wrote,  you would certainly notice that I distinguished between   
   calling ideas stupid and calling people stupid.   
      
   So glad to see that we are in agreement on this, even if only one of us   
   _applies_ the relevant principle.   
      
      
      
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