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- From: mara@panix.com (Mara Chibnik)
- Subject: Re: correction to end-of-year reading
- Message-ID: <C08CKD.M0u@panix.com>
- Keywords: mystery writers
- Organization: (getting there)
- References: <76016@apple.apple.COM> <1992Dec31.182613.17560@Csli.Stanford.EDU> <C06K5p.LLq@panix.com> <1993Jan1.205856.19989@Csli.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 14:07:25 GMT
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- Trust zwicky@Csli.Stanford.EDU (Arnold Zwicky) to ask the question I
- so carefully avoided. About Sarah Caudwell's books, he writes:
- >mara says her mother read two of the books without noticing
- >that no hints were given as to hilary tamar's sex. the question is:
- >what mental picture did mara's mother have of hilary tamar?
-
- Mom thought Tamar was a man. It never occurred to her to doubt it.
- I sent her back to reread the books thinking of Tamar as a woman.
-
- >i can't judge caudwell's knowledge of law (she *is* a lawyer,
- >however) or cricket or various of the other domains on which
- >her characters discourse in such detail, but she seems sound on
- >textual analysis and linguistics.
-
- Yes, I've enjoyed her on textual analysis as well. I'd love to
- quote but (aren't you getting tired of hearing this? I'm sure
- getting tired of having to say it!) those books are packed.
-
- >arnold (impressed to find a lawyer who knows about fricatives
- > and neat stuff like that)
-
- Oooh, Arnold, I'm sure we could find you other lawyers who'd talk to
- you about fricatives if you wanted.
-
- But seeing that excerpt, which started:
- > `Oh,' said Julia again, `you must be Leonidas.'
- reminded me of a very different series of books, featuring a
- detective named Leonidas Witherall (or something like that) who
- looked like Shakespeare and taught at a boys' prep school in New
- England. I'm sure he didn't accent the penultimate syllable, and
- his 'd' was certainly a stop.
-
-
- --
-
- Mara Chibnik
- mara@panix.com Life is too important to be taken seriously.
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