Digest urth.v018.n007

Michael Straight · 28 Aug 1998, 08:42 · from urth-v0018.mbox · original

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From: Michael Straight <straight at email.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: (urth) Re:  Digest urth.v018.n007
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 08:42:42
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On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, Kieran Mullen wrote:

>    I think FP suffers from poor editing.  Eco was too big a writer to have
> his prose altered, I suspect.  You could cut a fair bit of the middle bit
> out.

Absolutely not.  That's like saying you could cut out a bunch of those
repeated phrases in Ravel's Bolero.  The fact that the long sections in
the middle about all the conspiracies is interminable is part of the
point.=20

-Rostrum

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