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From: dbd@gatekeeper.vic.com
VD wrote:
>Gene Wirchenko wrote:
>> VD wrote:
>>>If you determine
>>>
>>>"...Mr. Grossman has written on his weblog that he is an atheist,
>>>which theological position does not foster hopes that he will have
>>>grasped the heart and goals of the fantasy tradition within English
>>>literature. All of that tradition’s historic ‘Greats,’ after all, from
>>>Coleridge through the Inklings, were devotional Christians whose
>>>profound and relatively esoteric faith informed their work and give
>>>the genre its distinctive features and flavors"...
>>>
>>>...to mean that "any fantasy that does not include Christianity
>>> does not deserve the name..."
>>>
>>> I would disagree.
>>
>> But the reviewer's view does get into True Scotsman territory.
>
>????????
Since you're being unreasonably persnickety for some reason, I'll just drop
you straight in:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NoTrueScotsman
>http://harrypotterforseekers.com/alchemy/alchemy.php
>
>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/harrypotterforseekers/messages?o=1
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5782108/Harry_Potter_and_the_Methods_of_Rationality
Dave "also trimming followups, just LOOK at that mess of newsgroups" DeLaney
--
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flower
It's not the clock that slows the hour The definition's plain for anyone to
see
Love is all it takes to make a family" - R&P. VISUALIZE HAPPYNET
VRbeable
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