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Date: Mon, 20-Feb-84 12:46:17 EST
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Date: Monday, 20 Feb 1984 09:47:19-PST
From: amber::chabot  (Lisa Chabot)
To: net.sf-lovers
Subject: more harping on consistency

RE: The self-consistency of Deryni novels

I didn't think they were self-consistent.  On the first page of the first 
book (published) I seem to remember two characters introduced as being 
close friends for many years, yet, because the author resorted to a weak 
literary device of a conversation to convey information to the reader (but 
probably not between the conversants), these two familiar friends then speak
in an overly formal manner about things that such close friends wouldn't 
need to speak of.  One would think they'd rarely met.  Either that, or one
or both were insane. 

RE: The self-consistency of RAH novels

I want all of you men (or boys) who spent your teens reading Heinlein books 
to remember 
				We're all out to get you!!! ( :-) )
				Lisa S. Chabot

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