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From: Michael Straight <straight@email.unc.edu> Subject: Re: (urth) Re: Digest urth.v018.n007 Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 08:42:42 On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, Kieran Mullen wrote: > I think FP suffers from poor editing. Eco was too big a writer to have > his prose altered, I suspect. You could cut a fair bit of the middle bit > out. Absolutely not. That's like saying you could cut out a bunch of those repeated phrases in Ravel's Bolero. The fact that the long sections in the middle about all the conspiracies is interminable is part of the point. -Rostrum *More Wolfe info & archive of this list at http://www.urth.net/urth/