colonel@gloria.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) (03/21/85)
[I didn't ought to have went.] > I'd worry instead about writing to my mailman. Fuzzy grammar indicates > fuzzy thinking (course, if you are writing at 3 am, it probably is fuzzy > thinking). See LESS THAN WORDS CAN SAY, Mitchell. I've read the book; it's engaging but much too long. You won't miss anything if you stop at the end of the first chapter. -- Col. G. L. Sicherman ...{rocksvax|decvax}!sunybcs!colonel
gadfly@ihu1m.UUCP (Gadfly) (03/25/85)
-- > > See LESS THAN WORDS CAN SAY, Mitchell. > > I've read the book; it's engaging but much too long. You won't miss > anything if you stop at the end of the first chapter. > -- > Col. G. L. Sicherman Yes you will. You'll miss a scathing indictment of the American system of public education, but that's a small loss. What you'll really miss is 200 pages of the most delightful, witty, and succinct prose you're ever likely to find. Mitchell is a proponent of the "If you can't write it, you can't think it" school. He defends it well, and in so doing gives an excellent example of its inverse. -- *** *** JE MAINTIENDRAI ***** ***** ****** ****** 25 Mar 85 [5 Germinal An CXCIII] ken perlow ***** ***** (312)979-7188 ** ** ** ** ..ihnp4!iwsl8!ken *** ***