From: edwardbelsky@worldnet.att.net   
      
   ROBBIE  wrote in message   
   news:xcydnf6S26VZEzPYnZ2dnUVZ8q-mnZ2d@bt.com...   
   > ASIDE TO THE REST OF THE NEWSGROUP:  They'll be claiming Eileen Blair   
   wrote   
   > all his books next... (you laugh - it happened to Shakespeare... You can   
   > imagine it in 300 hundred years, after the the nuclear war, some feminists   
   > on the west coast: 'look, how this guy who didn't go to university could   
   > write all that...no way, it's SPENDER! IT'S SO OBVIOUSLY SPENDER! AND SO   
   > OBVIOUSLY A GAY MAN TOO, I CITE MARTHA A BRIDEGAM WHO DID PIONEERING WORK   
   IN   
   > PROVING ORWELL WAS GAY. A SECRET CATHOLIC YOU SAY? WELL, IT'S POSSIBLE.   
   > THERE ARE THEORIES THAT QUEEN ELIZABETH THE SECOND WROTE THEM YOU KNOW...'   
   >   
   You are nipping in the bud a non-existent faction of Eileenists.   
      
   "Influence" didn't really start as a descriptive term so much a defense   
   against the accusation of copying.  "Influence" was meant to stanch the fire   
   of crueler words.  It was a compromise word, a happy medium. Then   
   "influence" was extemded to cover cases like the Blairs.   
      
   BTW the Oxfordians' case against the Man from Stratford rests on the   
   impossibility of writing about people "above" your class.-- although they   
   see no problem in The Earl of Oxford writing about the low.  To Shema (In   
   Aramaic: from this you may learn)   
      
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