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| 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 |
| Message-ID | <d4qiksF174eU4@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
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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) - 2015-09-03 10:25 +0100
Re: seveneves Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-09-03 09:36 +0000
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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
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