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From: boyajian@akov68.DEC (JERRY BOYAJIAN)
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Subject: re: John Byrne
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Date: Sat, 26-Oct-85 03:58:17 EST
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>From: tim@k.cs.cmu.edu.ARPA (Tim Maroney)

> This article just goes to show how literarily impoverished Byrne is.  The
> Bible is hardly full of infallible characters; in fact, only Yahweh and Jesus
> are supposed to have made no mistakes.

And I can just as easily say that your article just goes to show how impover-
ished your reading skills are. Since I still haven't seen the CBG in question,
I can only quote from the transcription in net.comics from mcewan@uiucdcs:

>>Byrne said, "My whole approach is that the *man* should be more important than
>>the *super*, and he *has* to be. If he's just a supremely powerful guy who
>>never screws up, then who cares? I mean, I've got The Bible if I want to read
>>that kind of stuff. Superman has to comprehensible in mortal terms."

He never said that the Bible is "full of infallible characters", only that if
you want to read about infallible characters, you can read the Bible.

On top of this, even if he made an error in stating thus about the Bible, it
hardly means that Byrne is "literarily impoverished", unless you have other
evidence to support your statement. I made mistakes in comprehension and
interpretation in my college literature classes, but I don't consider myself
literarily impoverished.

I don't mean to promote Byrne as a Wizard of Words (though I do enjoy his FF),
but give me (and him) a break.

--- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Acton-Nagog, MA)

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