Bob Toomey (btoomey@javanet.com)
Thu, 04 Nov 1999 17:35:59 -0500
> Sometimes I think that John D. MacDonald's later
style
> (with lots of talk about "issues", injecting
personal
> opinion, and so on) was the origin of this
modern
> epidemic of idle chat. John D. had lots of class
and
> was a born storyteller, so he could get away with
it,
No, he couldn't. Same thing happened to Heinlein, and he
couldn't get away with it either.
"But I observed that the artisans fell into the same error as
the poets; because they were good workmen, they thought they
knew all manner of high things, and this defect in them
overshadowed their wisdom." ---Plato
BobT
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