----- Original Message ----- From: "Mario Taboada" <
matrxtech@yahoo.com>
> His [Prather's] fiction is exagerated without being
exploitive. Because
> of his underlying irony, his fantasies are
harmless.
> Whether they were harmless in their day, I cannot
say. I
> doubt that Spillane's brutal exercises were
harmless, for
> example.
Okay, I'll bite. How do you know that the moronic minority
who might have been influenced by Spillane's over-the-top
misogyny, sadism and general right wing antics, didn't find
his "brutal exercises" therapeutic? I find it difficult to
conceive of books as harmful. Perhaps when used as
missiles...
Al
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