News reader:

[Wilson Gray]

I asked you not to tell me that! Besides, Poul Anderson, the author of
one of my favorite stories, "The Un-Man," was a science-fiction
writer, not a literary giant whose style affected the usage of others.

-Wilson

On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 10:15 PM, Mark Mandel <thnidu at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 1:23 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> "Hoofs" is acceptable?! Don't tell me that!
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>> -Wilson
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> "Whatever we build will break and fall
>  Under the hoofs of history."
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> (Poul Anderson, in the story "Losers' Night")
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> Mark Mandel
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