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Re: patents
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Thu, 11 Mar 1999 16:05:18 GMT
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jsproat@geocities#avoidspam#.com
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Jasper Janssen wrote:
> While the HitchHiker's guide is definitely literary by my standards,
> I'm not due if Back to the Future qualifies.
Au contrare, mon frere. While it certainly has a lot of undesirable
attributes -- it was directed with teen-agers in mind, it starred Mr. Fox,
it had music by Huey Lewis, it introduced new slang terms into everyday
lingo, etc. -- the movie still fits my definition of literature. It has a
plot, it has believable characters, (I believe) it would stand the test of
time, and it has a moral. (1) Not the best literature, sure, but something
worth seeing at least twice.
I had this same discussion with my high school English teacher -- the same
who got me hooked onto Bob Dylan and Guns N' Roses. I figured if these
"musical artists" were literary sources worth study, then so was _BTTF_, and
we should watch it in class.
I lost that one, though. We watched Antigone instead. :-,
> Say, don't you have any more _difficult_ R's to S?
???
...more difficult roads to slalom?
...more difficult rapiers to swallow?
Cheers,
- jsproat
1. The moral? Billy Joel said it best -- and says it at the end of each of
his shows. Unfortunately, this is a family newsgroup, so I won't say it
here.
--
Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@geocities.com>
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Horizon/5249/
"The world will not perish for want of wonders but for want of wonder"
-- British scientist J. B. S. Haldane (1892-1964)
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| (...) I wouldn't call BD or GnR literature either. By any stretch of the imagination. Worthy of study? possibly. But literature? Not in my definition. And why would you want to watch it _again_ in class? I & III, the good ones, are on every 4-6 (...) (26 years ago, 12-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) While the HitchHiker's guide is definitely literary by my standards, I'm not due if Back to the Future qualifies. Say, don't you have any more _difficult_ R's to S? Jasper (26 years ago, 11-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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