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From: MLY.G.SHADES@MIT-OZ
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: SF-LOVERS Digest   V10 #237
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Date: Fri, 5-Jul-85 00:39:45 EDT
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From: shades 

	i have been avoiding the this entire issue of tucker versus
the rest of world however i do wish to make one small point.  tom de
bellis is correct in that the divine comedy is not a novel.  it was
and is an epic poem.  the genesis of the 'modern novel' does stem from
don quixote. it was the first *prose* fiction piece.  if you read it
in the original you will find where he lapses back to the traditional
poetic format rather than having it as a straight prose piece.

                      shades%mit-oz@mit-mc.arpa