XPost: alt.usage.english, rec.arts.books, rec.arts.sf.misc   
   From: g@crcomp.net   
      
   The True Melissa wrote:   
   > Verily, in article <10lmj7i$3ecue$2@dont-email.me>, did   
   > noone@nowhere.com deliver unto us this message:   
   >> Don wrote:   
   >> > The True Melissa wrote:   
   >> >> Verily, in article <10lk4a9$2le82$3@dont-email.me>, did   
   >> >> noone@nowhere.com deliver unto us this message:   
   >> >>>> Niffenegger, Audrey. 2005. The time traveler's wife.   
   >> >>>   
   >> >>> Drek. A nonsensical attempt to outdo Nabokov's Lolita. Pathetic romance   
   >> >>> with handwavium time travel as a distraction.   
   >> >>   
   >> >> Huh, I enjoyed that one. It's not SF; it's a love story. Read as a love   
   >> >> story, it's nice IMO.   
   >> >   
   >> > Agreed. Yet some rascally readers repress the romance as they try to   
   >> > twist the story into thirty-six year old Henry grooming six year old   
   >> > Clare.   
   >>   
   >> It is a long time since I read it but wasn't that aspect there?   
   >   
   > It's also been a long time since I read it, but in my memory, he is   
   > careful to treat her like the child she is during that scene.   
      
   Thirty-six year old Henry does groom six year old Claire to provide his   
   immediate, non-romantic, basic needs whenever he happens to show up in   
   the meadow bare bones. But bear in mind, Claire's a willing accomplice -   
   as are most women in my life. They can not bear to see a creature go   
   thirsty or hungry.   
      
       "A traditional list of immediate 'basic needs' is food (including   
       water), shelter and clothing. Many modern lists also include also   
       transportation, sanitation, education, and healthcare. Different   
       agencies use different lists."   
      
   # # #   
      
       When asked how his Catholic faith has shaped him, Alito said   
       his faith provides him meaning and purpose.   
      
       “The title of a book by Tolstoy has been translated as What   
       Then Should We Do? My faith gives me an answer. It would be   
       terrible to think that life has no meaning, that we are going   
       nowhere, and that what we do until we die is a matter of   
       indifference. That is what tortures so many today.”   
      
      
      
   WHAT THEN SHOULD WE DO? appears in Luke 3:10–14. Tolstoy's non-fictional   
   work describes the Russian social conditions in 1886. It begins with a   
   Moscow beggar being thrown into jail for begging.   
       WHAT THEN SHOULD WE DO will be the next book heard (eg read) by me.   
      
   --   
   Don.......My cat's  )\._.,--....,'``.                     veritas    _|_   
   telltale tall tail /,   _.. \   _\  (`._ ,.               liberabit   |   
   tells tall tales.. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'              vos         |   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)