Re: Bookshop in the Skies and Other Lies (was: Re: Another Question Haddad Ignored)

"Ray Haddad" <rhaddad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 17:45:18 GMT, I said, "Pick a card, any card"
and "RJM" <scratch.pad@xxxxxxxxxx> instead replied:

"Ray Haddad" <rhaddad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 15:45:29 GMT, I said, "Pick a card, any card"
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"Ray Haddad" <rhaddad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:41:13 GMT, I said, "Pick a card, any card"
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"Ray Haddad" <rhaddad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 20:53:00 GMT, I said, "Pick a card, any card"
and "RJM" <scratch.pad@xxxxxxxxxx> instead replied:

"Ray Haddad" <rhaddad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 09:42:48 GMT, I said, "Pick a card, any card"
and "RJM" <scratch.pad@xxxxxxxxxx> instead replied:

Oh dear, oh dear.

Shut up, Robert.

Bless 'im. Tetchy, needs another holiday, poor chap.

http://tinyurl.com/ter8z

Down, Brucie!

One day your mum and da' are going to get upset with you over using
their picture like that, Robert. Or is that you and Bruce herself?

Damn! Yes, I admit it, that is Bruce. In drag, obviously.
He likes to dress up as "Brenda" on holiday. That isn't me,
by the way, just some fat cunt we picked up in a bar. It
wasn't until we took him back to the motel that he realized
"Brenda" was a dog. Yeah, right, we haven't heard that
one before! Still, it didn't stop him getting it on in a er big
way. Now those are some dirty pictures!

Ever read any Spider Robinson books? Callahan's Crosstime Saloon?

I'm afraid not, never heard of either.

Your reply could have been lifted from practically any of his pages.

I presume you don't mean "I'm afraid not, never heard of either".
I'm flattered, of course, that my prose reminds you of one of your,
I take it, favourite writers. I had no idea you were so fixated on
alternative lifestyles. In a lifetime of reading I must say I've er come
across many queer books, not to mention queer writers. There
are several authors whose ideas may appeal to you, if you'll allow
me to recommend from our shelves . . .. Isherwood, Lawrence,
Auden, O'Hara, Baldwin and Rice. Edmund White is an interesting
writer. I find his fiction slightly embarrassing, mind, but it seems
you have a rich fantasy life, you may get more from it. The biography
of Genet was a revelation (to me) and of course everyone has read
The Writer in the City books. My favourite is The Flaneur. I wonder
if you're familiar with Bruce Benderson? MIGS would just die if
you were, wouldn't they? But I digress . . . perhaps you'd favour us
with a blanket critique of the Robinson oeuvre? Do, please.

Sure. Sci-Fi/Fantasy where the owner of a saloon and many of the
visitors are time travelers. They all tell puns, stories and
experience a variety of challenges during their retellings.

Time travelling barflies who all tell puns. Fascinating.


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