Helge Moulding wrote:
>Snobbery seems to go in both directions.
>
>Perhaps the blurb writer really wanted to say, "some stuff is fun to
>read, and some stuff will be read in college in a hundred years. This
>particular book may be both." He just said it in a way that liberal
>arts majors would like better. :-)
>
On the other hand, this liberal arts major would like to point out that
the practice of this discipline for thirty years or so has taught her to
recognize instantly when a writer has started writing without engaging
his or her brain, and this is obviously the case with the blurb writer
under discussion.
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