RARA-AVIS: Hear, Hear!

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Kevin Burton Smith responds to Mark.

Mark asks:

>Could it be that those making these claims feel
insecure about enjoying
>genre fiction and feel a need to elevate any
they do enjoy to give it
>legitimacy?

Kevin responds:

Yes, and those who in turn automatically sneer at academics are just as full of it. Snobbery cuts both ways.
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It's about time that someone point out that out.

(I went through a period of reverse snobbery myself.)

Welllll . . . maybe I haven't lost it completely--but I'm trying.

Jack Bludis

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