choices

Jeff Wilson · 06 Aug 2011, 19:14 · from 2011-August.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at clueland.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2011 14:14:51 -0500
Subject: (urth) choices
In-Reply-To: <4E3B08D2.1040504 at irit.fr>
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On 8/4/2011 4:02 PM, Sergei SOLOVIEV wrote:
> Dear members -
>
> I didn't vote (just missed the vote), but I am
> puzzled by the fact that two of the books sometimes chosen
> (Thomas Covenant and Elric) were truly repulsive to me. I tried to
> analyse why,
> in case of Elric I concluded that it seems to me full of (slightly
> veiled) plagiarism
> on the level of ideas and images

Could you say more about why Elric is repulsive? I mean, I know he's an 
antihero in the literal sense, intentionally being written to have 
opposite attributes to Conan, for instance, but I didn't catch any 
veiled plagiarism or excessive quotation, but that might be out of lack 
of familiarity with previous genre material.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at clueland.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
< http://www.tamut.edu/CIL >

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