Re: CHAT: Turtledove (was: RE: Nov 11th)
| From: | And Rosta <a.rosta@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, November 21, 1999, 19:02 |
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Andrew Smith:
> Am 11/18 00:31 And Rosta yscrifef:
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> > One delightful discovery in my recent unchronian investigations
> > was L. Sprague de Camp's _Lest Darkness Fall_,
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> I take it that you're a Congregationalist then?:) I like the
> theological debate that occurs in the second chapter of _Lest Darkness
> Fall_, my favorite bit. The book was also influential on Turtledove,
> attracting him to historical research and then into speculative writing.
I didn;t understand the joke; I guess the joke is that
Congregationalism is all things to all people, but I know nothing
about Congregationalism, unless that's what the loonies in _Old
Mortality_ (now ***THAT's*** a brilliant book) are.
--And.