Re: Not Entirely OT: Grammar

On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:18:22 -0400, Stan The Man wrote
(in article <48dae6de$0$26077$db0fefd9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):

Do you blacklist the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald or James Joyce
because they couldn't spell? Did their laziness or lack of attention at
school make them bad writers? Do they owe their fame to proofreaders
and copy editors? Are great imaginations and great storytellers banned
from your orbit because they cannot spell?

Joyce, yes, he's on my never again list. I once tried to read some of his
stuff. Once. Never again.

And I state this as someone who reads Naipaul for recreation and has actually
managed to finish most of Rushdie's work (how on Earth anyone could possibly
stay awake long enough to be offended by _The Satanic Verses_ is quite beyond
me...) and even managed to finish Pynchon's _Gravity's Rainbow_, though it'll
be a cold day in hell before I pick it up again. _Ulysses_, now, that I
bounced off the wall a few times on its way to the trash can.

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