--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > Why is "writer's > > ego" privileged? Especially when a writer--at least > > a published one--is in a position to influence large > > numbers of readers? > > "Writer's ego" is not privileged, just understood. :-)
Says Barry, failing as usual to take responsibility for what he wrote. > As for influencing large numbers of readers, might > I suggest that your sense of perspective is as skewed > as Paul's is today? As of today, his book is listed > in Amazon's sales rankings at number 1,092,234, which is > admittedly higher than any of mine, but it doesn't really > put him in the bestseller ballpark, does it? I don't believe I suggested it did, did I? The point is, of course, that more people than read these forums on which Paul holds forth will have his book; and in any case, words printed on a page and bound between covers are usually more influential than posts to an electronic forum. That's why I'm wondering why misinterpretations due to "writer's ego" are considered by you to be less significant than those due to ordinary ego. But you knew that. You just couldn't come up with a relevant response. <snip MMY-bashing non sequiturs designed to make readers think Barry actually answered the questions> ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Ever feel sad or cry for no reason at all? Depression. Narrated by Kate Hudson. http://us.click.yahoo.com/YbEMxA/ubOLAA/d1hLAA/0NYolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
