On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:
> > Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2001 20:08:58 -0400
> > From: Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...>
> >
> > I'm reading Robert Graves' _The White Goddess_ right now and I have to
> > ask, before I go crazy, as far as historical/anthropological/linguistic
> > "fact" is he on crack, or am I a dull uneducated unpoetic soul (always
> > possible :-p), or are there big gaping holes of logic? I think I've
[snip]
> > YHL, unpoetic soul :-p
>
> Nonsense, an unpoetic soul would have dropped the book once the flaws
> in reasoning became apparent.
<rueful g>
> Graves should always be read as historical fiction. Suggestive
> fiction, sometimes, but his are not scholarly works.
Thanks--I was really beginning to doubt my sanity. Now I can go back to
enjoying the thing and turning my logic function off....
YHL