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- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Subject: Re: Not revising - with a twist
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 19:46:40 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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- References: <1993Jan21.213705.6410@digi.lonestar.org> <mtan-220193093436@maureen.cen.uiuc.edu> <1993Jan23.053309.14920@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
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- In article <1993Jan23.053309.14920@cbfsb.cb.att.com> djd@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (david.j.daulton) writes:
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- >... "Writing for the trunk is masturbation." ....
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- And, by analogy, writing for publication is prostitution ...
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- (pause for all the professional writers within eyeshot to murmur,
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- "You bet!" )
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- And writing for a few close friends, like Jane Austin, would be a small
- catered orgy, I guess, and ....
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- any further ideas?
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- Dorothy J. Heydt
- UC Berkeley
- cozzlab@garnet.berkeley.edu
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- Disclaimer: UCB and the Cozzarelli lab are not responsible for my
- opinions, and in fact I don't think they know I have any.
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