At 08:02 PM 4/3/2003 -0600, Beth wrote:
 >You're right, it was.  It was the other way around:  Stouffer sued 
Rowling, and lost.
 >For good reason.

Oops.  See previous public apology and retraction.

My face is now on fire, much like the hair in the previous post.  (I also 
apologize for the use of that off-the-cuff metaphor -- it has been pointed 
out kindly to me that several people on the list/echo have red hair, and it 
could be construed as having meant THEM  personally, and that wasn't how I 
meant it.  Oh, mouthful of Birkenstock.  Yum.  Where do these lovely 
similes or metaphors come from, just at the wrong time, when they could 
have been good used someplace else?  The Devil did it, I say.  Devil!!  Get 
over here and confess!!)

(What I still don't understand is why, in all the various venues I've seen 
this case mentioned in, and on those silly websites like the 
orange-background one that I cited and the woman's own "realmuggles.com" 
website, nobody has 'fessed up to the whole sham.  That's really 
irritating.  *Somewhere* there should have been a pointer to Teresa's or 
someone else's explanation, but I was using the incorrect Google terms 
and/or had been convinced by the other websites/articles.  But, on the 
other hand, I remember being *told* to recheck stuff that I read on the 
Internet or that people sent me.)

Perhaps this requires a turnabout in thinking.  (Although it still makes me 
nervous to think that an entire "type" of story could cease being viable 
because of the various decisions . . . you never know what a jury will 
decide is "too close."  You just have to trust . . . which isn't always 
good.  I mean, what if a jury decided that no one else could write 
mysteries starring a bounty hunter who's a single woman in a small New 
Jersey town, because Janet Evanovich cornered the market on them?  I don't 
think the market would bear two series that similar, and editors would just 
reject that series, but if it were legally verboten, that would be 
worrisome.  Yet it requires further cogitation with the new input.  Expert 
system must remake rulebase.)



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over the neighborhood in place of "Ally ally out are in free,"
Shal
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