On 4 December 2001, Kevin Burton Smith wrote:
: Yeah, I had to ask, to confirm what I suspected. It didn't
ruin the
: book for me, but it postponed my "Wow!" at the end of it
for a few
: minutes, while I phoned a friend, to make sure I had the
whole Bias
: story straight.
I'd forgotten who Len Bias was, so when I got to the end and
remembered how he'd died, I thought, "Aha!" and realized what
it would have meant to people who knew. I missed out on the
foreshadowing, but cluing in afterwards put everything in a
different context, so I got two for the price of one.
Bill
-- William Denton : Toronto, Canada : http://www.miskatonic.org/ : Caveat lector.
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