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> Date: Sun, 2 May 1999 10:15:43 -0700
> From: "Barbara R. Hume" <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Art (and SF) for the Ages
>
> >The first time I read "A Boy and HIs Dog", by Harlan Ellison (couldn't
> >believe the ending; had to read it again right afterwards)
>
> When I read this story (for the first and last time), I recognized the
> talent behind it, but it still made me sick to my stomach. Maybe because I'm
> a female and insist on believing that I'm a human being, that women are not
> objects who exists merely for the pleasure of garbage-brained rapists like
> this protagonist---
>
> barbara hume
>
Maybe that's what the story's meant to make you feel.
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Andy Sawyer
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"Incense and Insensibility" - June 12 1999
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