OT: watchmen on trial

maru · 22 Mar 2005, 16:42 · from 2005-March.txt.gz

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From: marudubshinki at gmail.com (maru)
Date: Tue Mar 22 16:42:08 2005
Subject: (urth) OT: watchmen on trial
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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:

>>>Perhaps the problem is that when I say it is a fascist book people
>>>think I'm dissing it.
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>>You *are* likening it to one of the most notorious, evil political
>>ideologies that ever was, and
>>labelling it a member.  It is rather understandable why 'people' would
>>think you are dissing it.
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>I suppose. But what would _you_ call a book based on the premise
>that facism is true?
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I'd call it didactic.  I'm not that fond of books that work on
proof-by-contradiction, (but Dune is so great in other ways
I usually overlook it, and try to see it as part of a series.)


~Maru
Concise OED; Plethora: An excess of; /"I had five dogs; a plethora of 
canines."/

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