Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]BD wrote: >And the Greenpeace "newspaper" is hardly a newspaper - it is a public >relations organ that exists to promote Greenpeace. I know it wasn't your intention, but this makes your argument sound a little on the naïve side, I mean, we could never accuse an arm of the media being responsible for spreading, retrenching (insert own personal qualifier here) its own ideological paradigm could we? Hope you're well, Gary - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- There are, of course, those who would argue that it's unhealthy to read a children's author past the age of, say, 24. Big people are supposed to reserve their enthusiasm for real estate, business plans and zero-sum games played by linguistically-impoverished men with hairy knuckles. This, in my view, is real nonsense. A world in which it's uncool for grownups to care passionately about books -- children's books, any books -- would be infinitely scarier than a world with telepathic avocados or real estate agents from outer space. - ---Paul LaFarge on children's author Daniel Pinkwater OO [_]<| /|\ Gary Elshaw Film Tutor Victoria University New Zealand http://elshaw.tripod.com/ - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ---------------- - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html