XPost: rec.arts.books, rec.arts.sf.written   
   From: psperson@old.netcom.invalid   
      
   On Tue, 3 Feb 2026 12:20:30 -0800, John Ames    
   wrote:   
      
      
      
   >(And it has been *endlessly* amusing, over the years, to hear so many   
   >starchy, moralizing parents of "Evangelical" conservative persuasion   
   >laud a series that has this liberation from conformity accomplished   
   >with Bacchus and his nymphs in the procession...!)   
      
   Just because they laud it doesn't mean they've actually /read/ it. Or   
   anything else he wrote.   
   --    
   "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,   
   Who evil spoke of everyone but God,   
   Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)