"Difficult"?

[Tom Stanton]

At 01:17 PM 5/21/97 PDT, Sean Klein wrote:
[snip]
>Semi-related to this: Truman Capote wrote "In Cold Blood" at a tenth-grade
level
>despite obvious ability to produce much superior prose.  He did this
>intentionally.  One result was that the book became a best-seller, spawned a
>whole new genre, and made him a millionaire.  (Note to all p-list fact
checkers:
> I'm presenting this information as something I read about a long time
ago.  I
>never spoke with TC about this.  In fact, I've never met him, never been to
>school with him, or worked with him.)

No excuse! Prepare for a 100 message thread on your subjective opinion
backed by research examples in the Library of Congress & the web. Bend
over & take it like a man!