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Subject: 
Re: Book burning (was Re: Flag Burning)
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Date: 
Thu, 19 Jul 2001 00:32:19 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks writes:


I thought that I might clarify this...I mean Vinge, Vernor -- not Vinge, Joan
D.  (Who is OK, but not a master.)

Um, she'd be a mistress. :-) <GD&R> ... actually I understand that Vernor
made an honest woman(1) of her for some while but they parted friends.

1 - you know, that phrase just bugs me, it seems wrong somehow. Seems to
devalue love for contracts or something.



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  Re: Book burning (was Re: Flag Burning)
 
(...) Did you mean "he" my friend, or "he" the author? Either way, you were right, except that this particular friend was a woman. (...) I think I finished the first two books and had to politely excuse myself from the series when Beth tried to (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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