-----Original Message----- From: Bill Crider <
abc@wt.net> To:
rara-avis@icomm.ca <
rara-avis@icomm.ca> Date: Wednesday, November 29, 2000
6:08 PM Subject: Re: Re: RARA-AVIS: john d macdonald
>>>>>Well, it was a little hokey when
Chandler did it and over the top hokey
>when Big Mac did it.....
>
>So how hokey would it be to name your detective
"Spenser" to suggest the
>author of "The Faerie Queen?" (I have to admit to a
great fondness for the
>poem's opening line, "A gentle knight was pricking on
the plain.")
>
Well, you are right Bill.....but I always try to
forget Spencer.
My uncle could never handle that "pricking on the
plain" gig either. He had to learn it by memory when he was a
kid.
James
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