Re: Drought! My ideas are all dried up...


"Jacey Bedford" <lookinsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In message <34oCg.33569$Ca.13075@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Chris Dollin
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Jacey Bedford wrote:


I didn't like the Pamela Dean one at all (which I know a lot of people
here like - but I think as a Brit the American university setting had no
resonance for me at all)

As a Brit I thoroughly enjoyed the American University setting.

Hey, it's an alien world, isn't it?
,Chuckle>
It is indeed. I found it harder to understand than some genuine
(fictional) alien worlds.
:-)

Fascinating. Blackstock is closely modeled on the college Pamela and I
attended (which, in American parlance, is not the same thing as a
university), so I'm very curious about which aspects struck you as alien and
hard to understand?

Patricia C. Wrede


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