At 01:19 PM 8/20/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>Excellent interview with Prather. By the way, it is
a
>scandal that the MWA has not made Prather a Grand
Master.
>This neglect is similar to the way the
literary
>establishment treated P.G. Wodehose, another master
of
>irony and comedy. If justice had been made, Wodehouse
would
>have been nobeled. Some people couldn't accept that a
guy
>who makes you laugh can also be a great
writer.
I suspect that in Wodehouse's case the widespread belief that
he was a Nazi sympathizer had a lot to do with his not being
on any honours list.
Ray
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