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From: "Josh Levitan" <josh_levitan@hotmail.com>
Subject: (whorl) Fooey for Fan Fic
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 17:59:44
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Sorry about the horrid clipping before. E-mail client at work being =
screwy.
Mantis wrote:
> Why do you seem to be arguing with me when I'm using the terms you =
want me
> to use? I didn't write "fans," I wrote "admirers of."
>
> I should take you to task for saying they are "historians." Good =
grief!
>
> =3Dmantis=3D
But there is, at least, a theoretical difference between the two. =
Horn's
sons (and their wives) weren't writing the missing chunks of the TBOTSS
because they thought Silk/Horn or Horn/Silk was nifty. Just like the
apostles didn't write the Gospels simply because Jesus was a swell guy =
and
they'd like to continue his adventures. And the writers of the =
Apocrypha
aren't fan fic writers either. They were filling in gaps in the
"historical" (using the term very loosely) record for reasons of their =
own -- to relate a message they believed to be within the spirit of =
Jesus' life and/or teachings, for example.
Narwhal
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<BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff>Sorry about the horrid clipping before. E-mail =
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work being screwy.<BR><BR>Mantis wrote:<BR><BR>> Why do you seem to =
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two. Horn's<BR>sons (and their wives) weren't writing the missing =
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nifty. =20
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swell guy and<BR>they'd like to continue his adventures. And the =
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