XPost: rec.arts.books.childrens, alt.books.cs-lewis, alt.usage.english   
   From: alfargnoli@yahoo.com   
      
   On Tue, 02 May 2006 16:17:29 -0700, Evan Kirshenbaum   
    wrote:   
      
   >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.   
      
   Perhaps he was confused by the parenthetical.   
      
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