> No, he wasn't a real doctor, but it doesn't matter,
>because he singlehandedly transformed children's literature from
>Dick & Jane into stuff worth reading.
Now this time, Sandy, I think you could _genuinely_ be accused of an "oversimplification" which is "dangerous" (inasmuch as this appears to be an attempt to rewrite or at least ignore history)...
:-)
I fully sympathise with the thrust of your statement, but I don't think it is _entirely_ accurate unless the man had a number of pseudonyms, including (but by no means restricted to) Kenneth Graham, Robert Louis Stephenson, A. E. Milne, Lewis Carroll, Mark Twain, Hans Christian Andersen and Rudyard Kipling.
(And apologies if I have mis-spelt any of the above - I don't have time to verify them right now. :-) )
Not that this has anything to do with Glorantha, but I just can't stand by and let such a large part of children's literature which owes nothing to the admittedly excellent "Doctor" go ignored in front of the readers of this list. My apologies to those Gloranthaphiles who have no interest in (or debt to) the classics of their youth...
:-)
Cheers, Bob
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Bob Luckin voly_at_dadd.ti.com "Able was I ere I saw Corflu"
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