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From: doug@netcom.com (Doug Merritt)
Subject: Re: boredom & interest 
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In article <elnaDp96vo.5G3@netcom.com> elna@netcom.com (Esperanto League N America) writes:
>I don't recall which science-fiction writer had the insight that "90% of
>science fiction is crap, but 90% of *any* genre is crap."
>This certainly applies to the Esperanto newsgroups as well as most English
>newsgroups. 

SF author Theodore Sturgeon replied to a critic who had complained that
90% of science fiction was crap, and said "90% of *everything* is crap."
	Doug
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