Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian From: boyajian@akov68.DEC (JERRY BOYAJIAN) Newsgroups: net.comics Subject: re: John Byrne Message-ID: <1072@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Sat, 26-Oct-85 03:58:17 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.1072 Posted: Sat Oct 26 03:58:17 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 28-Oct-85 03:13:03 EST Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 33 >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) UUCP: {decvax|ihnp4|allegra|ucbvax|...} !decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian ARPA: boyajian%akov68.DEC@DECWRL.ARPA