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Re: seveneves

From Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid>
Newsgroups alt.folklore.computers
Subject Re: seveneves
Date 2015-09-03 09:36 +0000
Organization Piglet's Pickles & Preserves
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On 2015-09-03, Simon Turner <simon@twoplaces.co.uk> wrote:

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>> (similar to the disappointment of the book which just came out about
>> Atticus Finch who was a character in _To Kill A Mockingbird_).
>
> I'm aware of the new Harper Lee book, but know nothing about it (I
> haven't read "To Kill A Mockingbird" -- an oversight I should probably
> remedy at some point -- so news of the "sequel" had little effect on
> me).

"Go Set a Watchman" was written *before* "To Kill A Mockingbird". Harper
Lee decided not to publish it at the time, so it's not really "new".

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> You do have a fairly, um, forthright style at the best of times -- which
> is not necessarily a bad thing, but that combined with not verifying
> your assumptions before committing yourself to statements portrayed as
> certainties, which may later turn out to be mistaken, provides
> low-hanging fruit for the attackers.

It's hardly "attacking" when Babs presents obvious nonsense as inerrant
truth, which she pretty routinely does.

-- 
Today is Sweetmorn, the 27th day of Bureaucracy in the YOLD 3181
                  I don't have an attitude problem.
    If you have a problem with my attitude, that's your problem.

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Re: seveneves simon@twoplaces.co.uk (Simon Turner) - 2015-08-27 10:09 +0100
  Re: seveneves jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-08-27 13:40 +0000
    Re: seveneves simon@twoplaces.co.uk (Simon Turner) - 2015-08-28 11:52 +0100
      Re: seveneves jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-08-28 13:31 +0000
        Re: seveneves simon@twoplaces.co.uk (Simon Turner) - 2015-09-03 10:25 +0100
          Re: seveneves Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-09-03 09:36 +0000
            Re: seveneves mausg@mail.com - 2015-09-03 10:17 +0000
              Re: seveneves Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-09-03 13:04 +0000
              Re: seveneves simon@twoplaces.co.uk (Simon Turner) - 2015-09-04 07:47 +0100
                Re: seveneves Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-09-04 09:02 +0000
                Re: seveneves Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2015-09-11 07:33 +0000
            Re: seveneves simon@twoplaces.co.uk (Simon Turner) - 2015-09-04 07:45 +0100
              Re: seveneves Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-09-04 08:59 +0000
      Re: seveneves Greymaus <mausg@mail.com> - 2015-08-28 14:23 +0000

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