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Skriven 2009-05-21 06:42:00 av Dave Drum (1:124/311)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: Arkin
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-=> Michael Loo wrote to Dave Drum <=-

 DD> I did a search on Alan Arkin and *ALL* of the output I found in book
 DD> form was children's fare. I don't mind "juveniles" or "young adult"
 DD> stuff so long as it is well written, tells a good story and is not
 DD> "written  down".

 ML> What I recall reading was in fact short story stuff, borderline
 ML> children's, but quite funny. Much of the most enduring literature
 ML> of our lifetime has been written for a quite young audience.

Like Hairy Potter? The kid whizzer from old Blighty? 
 
 ML>   Children's books
 DD> I never enjoyed - even when I was a children my own self. I
 DD> left "See Spot run"
 DD> running behind Dick and Jane.

 ML> Bear in mind that the Ginn readers aren't exactly typical of
 ML> children's literature. To claim such would be to open yourself to
 ML> the charge of being "the biggest blame fool in the jungle of Nool."

I think the last actual children's book I had inflicted on me was about Flopsy,
Mopsy and Cottontail and was not much above the level of the Dick & Jane
primers. In the summer between second and third grades I went to the public
library in Carlinville, IL (population in 1950 around 5000 - not much bigger
now) and was turned on to a book called "Rocket Ship Galileo" by some mug named
Robert A. Heinlein. Sitting a few books down from that was a short story
anthology of Murray Leinster (William Fitzgerald Jenkins) called "Sidewise In
Time". The stories of both were interesting enough that it was worth having to
look up the occasional word in the Thorndike-Barnhart. After I burned through
all the space opera and speculative fiction that the Carlinville library had I
moved on to Zane Gray, et al and the horse opera and oatburners.

BTW - Glen's "universal translator" was first posited in a Murry Leinster story
called "First Contact".
 
 DD> My issue is more with the people who do not read at all. The
 DD> functionally illiterate dolts whose proudest claim seems to be "I've
 DD> not read a book since I left school."

 ML> In my circles I seldom run into such: I do find people (often
 ML> in the audience when I perform in peculiar out-of-the-way venues,
 ML> who are pathetically grateful that they can be entertained
 ML> without having to drive twenty miles to the big city) who have
 ML> never traveled more than one town boundary past their own. Quite
 ML> interesting.

I tend to give the non-reading people short shrift. I find them to be, for the
most part knee-jerk reactionary, shallow and vapid. IOW - boooooring.

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      Title: Rocket Salad Dressing
 Categories: Dressings, Salads
      Yield: 1 cup
 
      1 tb Sugar
      1 ts Salt
      1 ts Paprika
      1 ts Mustard; dry
    1/4 ts Pepper
           Garlic powder
    1/4 c  Vinegar
    3/4 c  Vegetable oil
 
  Mix dry ingredients with the vinegar and shake well.
  Add the oil and shake again.  Shake before using.
  
  NOTES:
  
  *  A mild oil and vinegar salad dressing -- This is a
  mild and slightly sweet dressing. I got it from my
  mother, who has made it for years.
  
  *  This gets its name from the red color the paprika
  gives the dressing. It works best with mild mustard,
  if you can find any.
  
  FROM: Pat Caudill, Portland, Oregon, USA
  
  Recipe from: http://www.recipesource.com

  Uncle Dirty Dave's Archives

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