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Subject: Re: Message to JMS about ASM #511
Date: 29 Aug 2004 10:34:12 GMT
From: jmsatb5@aol.com (Jms at B5)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.marvel.universe

>Didn't you just do the same thing you insulted Paul O'Brian over:
>paraphrasing something someone said to create a "strawman argument?"

I don't think they're comparable, but then, I likely wouldn't, would I?  But I
do think there's a reasonable difference between taking a statement and
rephrasing it so it means something it never, ever implied...and taking
something that's stated pretty clearly and questioning its implications.

>P.S.  Just read Strange #1 from the online link.  Loved it.  Really
>well done.  I'm curious as to how you and Sam Barnes are splitting the
>writing duty.

She (and it's Samm) writes half, and I write half, then we revise each other's
stuff to make it feel consistent.


 jms

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