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from: Quinn Tyler Jackson
date: 2003-04-27 17:12:36
subject: RE: [writing2] story

> And, not to mention that taste always plays into 
> everything.  There are those
> who will swear that Chekov was a bad writer ... or, that 
> Poe couldn't write a
> sentence if his life depended on it.  When you get really 
> depressed, read up on
> Dasheil Hammett's life & how the NY literati tried to 
> convince him to write
> "real literature" instead of "mere pulp novels." there is 
> this current slavish
> usage of "that" instead of "which" in everything (active 
> vs. passive voice)
> that just curdles my blood. (That that -- ugh!)Lezlie

"That that I am not killed by I am made stronger by," The Neech said.

--
Quinn Tyler Jackson

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