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From: Whips...@cris.com (WHIPPERSNAPPER)

Date: 1998/05/30

Subject: Re: clam sleuth on the web

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In article <3581622a.8817...@news.snafu.de>,

Tilman Hausherr <til...@berlin.snafu.de> wrote:
>http://www.aestheticart.com/dizengre.htm
>http://www.citycent.com/20heads/literacy.htm

>Laury Dizengremel: she does to the art of sculpture what scientologists
>do to the art of poetry. She also supports the "world literacy crusade"
>front group.

>http://www.romanceweb.com/karenk/kkbio.html
>Karen Kay, writes romance novels, supports the "world literacy crusade"
>front group. Her advice for writers is

> http://www.romanceweb.com/karenk/writetips.html

>"Forget grammar, spelling, punctuation, paragraph structure". (L. Ron
>Hubbard certainly applied that rule a lot!)

As usual, Tilman misrepresents; this time by deliberate omission. The
next sentence is:

"Most of what one is taught in college courses, I'm afraid, is how to edit
not how to write."

I see no recommendation *not* to edit once one has written something. And
I daresay this woman's own books aren't published without having been
edited. She seems to be saying, "write first" and implying one can
thereafter perfect the expression.

As a published writer, one might conclude she has used the approach with
success. As I am sure other writers may very well do.

Tilman's "clam hunt" is so pathetic. Not only does he single out people
for their religious belief -- an act so offensive as to be almost beyond
words -- but he then invents things to ridicule about them.

I've seen schoolyard bullies with better manners.

- Whippersnapper

"It's psychosomatic. You need a lobotomy. I'll get a saw." -- Calvin

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