At 05:28 AM 09/01/2005 -0800, you wrote:
>(I thought the
>five-questions-you-ask a-Frenchman was more
ridiculous
>than hilarious)
More to the point, so did Archer. I hope I'm not being
defensive about this, but it was the image of Archer having
stuck himself with administering this pompous bit of academic
self-indulgence that struck me as funny, and not just because
Archer was the hardboiled dick, but also because, having read
Nolan, I was aware of Miller's issues with academia.
I overstated by saying he was a failed academic. He did
teach, and Nolan suggests he was a decent instructor.
Further, writing was his first career choice. But he didn't
get the respect he deserved from academic administrators
largely because he was a genre writer, according to
Nolan.
Best, Kerry
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