BARD@MIT-XX.ARPA (09/07/85)
From: Bard Bloom <BARD@MIT-XX.ARPA> > >the other side. It can't be intended personally, for we are all of > >us honorable men. > > You obviously haven't seen the nasty mail messages I've occasionally > received. :-) > You studied some form of literature somewhat formally, no? Surely that quotation doesn't need to be :-)'ed. :-) > Those of you with long memories will recall > that my first posting on quality and fiction predated the whole > Davis Tucker series that seems to have upset so many people in this > group, and was a reaction to Steve Brust's claim that most good > writing today is issuing from the pens (word processors?) of SF > writers. Since then, I've seen great hostility on both sides of the > fence. So please don't mislead newcomers to this controversy by > claiming that the initial extremity was perpetrated by an "Art > Snob." My OWN first impressions were that the "Good-Read Snobs" > started it; c'mon, fight like a mensch. :-) > That did seem to be the start of the 1985 season on this network. It didn't seem too offensive to me; it wasn't like the antipersonal and antigroup attacks that followed it. I don't know who started flaming offensively first; but I imagine that the person who did didn't think she or he was flaming offensively. For you, it may have been Steve Brust. And I'm trying to fight like a penguin. Pax VAXque vobiscum, (with emphasis on the `Pax') Bard -------