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From: seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com

Matthias Warkus wrote:
> Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) schrieb:
>> Matthias Warkus wrote:
>>> Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) schrieb:
>>>> highfalutin' "lit'ry" SF writer of the sort that has a loud,
>>>> outspoken following but really isn't READABLE by ordinary people.
>>>
>>> More "ordinary people" read "lit'ry" fiction than SF, you know.
>>
>>     Outside of school? I doubt it. Unless you're classing Tom Clancy,
>> John Grisham, and romance novels as lit'ry, which I don't.
>
> So what's your definition of "lit'ry"?

	"I know it when I see it".

	It's NOT stuff that's published mainly as entertainment, or that's
regarded as mainly entertainment. It's the "general fiction" which
usually gets reviewed seriously in the NYT book review.


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