In a message dated 2/20/01 5:48:59 PM Eastern Standard Time, littles@lycos.co.uk writes:
<< > critic who accused Shakespeare for making
Hamlet suffer so much. For centuries the audience has experienced aesthetic pleasure in his suffering, and some would probably call it beautiful.)
Didn't think that when John Savident played Hamlet. Or Basil Brush... anyway, big difference between fan slash and Eng. Lit. in *my* opinion... >>
Yes, Shane, perhaps that's so... but the quote you were answering was talking about hurt/comfort in literature and fan fiction NOT slash, I believe.
Annie
In a message dated 2/20/01 5:48:59 PM Eastern Standard Time, littles@lycos.co.uk writes:
<< > critic who accused Shakespeare for making
Hamlet suffer so much. For centuries the audience has experienced aesthetic pleasure in his suffering, and some would probably call it beautiful.)
Didn't think that when John Savident played Hamlet. Or Basil Brush... anyway, big difference between fan slash and Eng. Lit. in *my* opinion...
Yes, Shane, perhaps that's so... but the quote you were answering was
talking
about hurt/comfort in literature and fan fiction NOT slash, I believe. Annie
Slash, hurt/comfort... whatever. Rewrite the sentence to read "...between fan hurt-comfort fiction and Eng. Lit." and you still get the idea. Anyway, we're still talking about what appears to be a transatlantic imposition on a British series, which has been retconned back into the series itself.
Shane
Vila: This is stupid, Avon. Avon: When did that ever stop us?
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