From: "Andy Robertson" <andywrobertson@clara.co.uk>
Subject: Re: (urth) The Best Introduction to the Mountains
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 00:23:30 -0000

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From: "Russell Wodell" <hse@telus.net>

> There is much to discuss (for example, that Wolfe seems to have even
lousier
> taste in poetry than Tolkien).


I disagree, but then I would.


> (1) Ursula K. LeGuin long ago wrote the perfect riposte to Wolfe's
political
> take, complaining that "Sam... keeps saying 'sir' to Fordo until one
begins
> to have made visions of founding a Hobbit Socialist Party."


Michael Moorcock famously said  "I am an Orc"