more marginalizing

[Terrance]

Michel Ryckx wrote:
> 
> barbara100 at jps.net wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > It's not a good critical position to have period.  Fiction, if it's any good
> > at all, does and should instruct, teach and reveal.  Make of it what you
> > will, but don't say it's not there for the taking.
> 
> Dear Barbara:
> 
> If I may intrude your endless soliloquy: does one read in order to have a
> critical position?  I read because I like books.  And that's it.  I would not
> know what that is, 'a critical position'  

To be fair to Barbara, the term is mine. 
But that's as fair as I feel today. 
Fair is fowl and if fowls fly fair, 
we can all forget about keeping score. 

				--Babe Truth