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Unread 01-26-2010, 11:00 AM
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I clicked on the link with with relish, hoping for something as amusing as Twain's FENIMORE COOPER'S LITERARY OFFENCES, with its classic, understated line "Cooper's art has some defects"

Alas, the compilers seem to think of themselves as "calling out" other writers over their literary devices, a tactic which would be news to people as diverse as Pierre de la Ramée and the Venerable Bede.

The whole thing would be way more fun if the compilers were having, um, more fun...

Thanks,

Bill
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