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481 Re: BATM: A Real Shock. -- rank: 633

--- "Alvin M. Revzin Ph.D." <arev@mindspring.com> wrote: > What a shock!!! After the elegance of "The Surgeon's > Mate" I found > BATM unreadable. Literally. It appeared to be a very > preliminary > first draft which was rushed into print without any > editing - or even > reading - by the publishers. No, or very little, of the > felicity of > language that was so much a pleasure in the early > books Read it again. I think the ma ...

Poster's Name:	Susan Wenger
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Message Date:	2000-04-02 13:42:59 UTC

482 Re: BATM: A Real Shock. -- rank: 633

In a message dated 4/1/00 10:07:03 PM Eastern Standard Time, arev@MINDSPRING.COM writes: << Anyone else have this experience? >> No. BATM was not the very best of POB, but I find calling it "unreadable" to be ... unimaginable. These things are always subjective, of course. I agree that a stronger editorial hand could have made some improvements, but personally I enjoyed reading it. And re-reading it. And reading it yet again. Bruce Trinque 41*19'41"N 72 ...

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Message Date:	2000-04-02 04:14:51 UTC

483 Re: BATM: A Real Shock. -- rank: 633

I wouldn't go so far as "unreadable," but it wasn't the best. The saga had pretty much run its course long before. My own theory is that the best of the series ended with HMS Surprise. Volumes 4-20, while good, do fall into soap opera, showing the trials and eventual, inevitable triumph of "our heroes." Good soap opera, but still soap opera. "HMS Surprise," with its cruel ending (Jack keeps his friend from happiness, then wallows in his own future of &quo ...

Poster's Name:	Greg Henrikson
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Message Date:	2000-04-02 03:57:10 UTC

484 BATM: A Real Shock. -- rank: 633

Gentlefolks all, While browsing in our local library today, there, in full glory, was a copy of BATM. Quickly, it was grasped and checked out ---- and serious reading begun. Well, I have been in the midst of a desultory rereading of the Saga - for the third time and, indeed, finished "The Surgeon's Mate" just before starting BATM. What a shock!!! After the elegance of "The Surgeon's Mate" I found BATM unreadable. Literally. It appeared to be a very preliminary first ...

Poster's Name:	Alvin M. Revzin Ph.D.
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Message Date:	2000-04-02 03:08:21 UTC

485 Re: [SeaRoom] Joseph Edward Smoot [BATM spoilers] -- rank: 633

>Discussions of topics related to Sea Room's books. >--- > >In a message dated 3/20/00 2:40:05 PM, dseltzer@draper.com writes: > ><< A latter day Smoot made a name for himself in the late 1960's by inventing >a new unit of bridge measurement. >> > >And there was a Senator Smoot from Utah who long ago put up an >anti-pornography bill: the New Yorker Magazine of glorious memory ran a poem >wch read, in part: > >Smite smut, Smoot, &g ...

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Message Date:	2000-03-20 23:34:01 UTC

486 Re: Autosurgery (BATM spoiler) -- rank: 633

Don Seltzer wrote: > > > Slight BATM spoiler: > > While on this subject, does anyone know of a famous castrato/eunuch called > Algernon? I've been wondering why Jack Aubrey refers to the unfortunate > master's mate as "Algernon" in BATM, when his real name was Henry, as we > learn at his funeral. Did POB and his editors make a slip, or was Jack > making some clever classical reference? > > Don Seltzer In my PASC update for BATM (delayed, d ...

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Message Date:	2000-02-25 18:50:50 UTC

487 Re: Autosurgery (BATM spoiler) -- rank: 633

Ginger (why on earth *do* I know all this?) Johnson wrote: >There's a murder mystery about a castrato by Robert Barnard - I've >forgotten the title. > >A couple of other titles on the subject: The Alteration by (I think) >Kingsley Amis and Cry to Heaven by Anne Rice. Oh, and there's a >photograph of a Chinese eunuch in Marina Warner's The Dragon Empress. The >last isn't a novel, but a biography of the last Empress of China. And >I'll second a vote for The Pers ...

Poster's Name:	Don Seltzer
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Message Date:	2000-02-25 18:14:45 UTC

488 Re: BATM Chapter 2 - REAL SPOILERS!!! LONG -- rank: 633

RxBACH@aol.com wrote: > Still BATM spoilers.... > > In a message dated 1/13/2000 11:31:52 PM Eastern Standard Time, > Rowen84@AOL.COM writes: > > > Second question: does this intimate that he DID write something > > "indiscreet", that perhaps warned Christine about his intentions and > > interest? She seems to be quite expecting (dreading?) his attentions when > > he > > gets there. (Chapter 5 - p. 108) Are we to assume that t ...

Poster's Name:	William Nyden
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Message Date:	2000-01-27 17:45:25 UTC

489 Re: BATM Chapter 2 - REAL SPOILERS!!! LONG -- rank: 633

Still BATM spoilers.... In a message dated 1/13/2000 11:31:52 PM Eastern Standard Time, Rowen84@AOL.COM writes: > Second question: does this intimate that he DID write something > "indiscreet", that perhaps warned Christine about his intentions and > interest? She seems to be quite expecting (dreading?) his attentions when > he > gets there. (Chapter 5 - p. 108) Are we to assume that there was some kind > of > imprudent remark? What do we make of th ...

Poster's Name:	Marian Van Til
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Message Date:	2000-01-27 03:12:13 UTC

490 Re: Mice, was Re: USA Today Review of BATM -- rank: 633

> From: Rowen84@AOL.COM [mailto:Rowen84@AOL.COM] > Sent: Tuesday, 18 January 2000 13:22 > > In a message dated 1/17/00 5:47:41 PM, > christopher.chatain@LMCO.COM wrote: > > <<--- Peter Mackay wrote: > > > I note that mouse now has two plurals, depending on > > > whether rodents or > > > pointing devices are under discussion. > > > > > > What? I've always heard "mice" for the plural of > > ...

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Message Date:	2000-01-18 08:56:41 UTC

491 Re: Mice, was Re: USA Today Review of BATM -- rank: 633

In a message dated 1/17/00 5:47:41 PM, christopher.chatain@LMCO.COM wrote: <<--- Peter Mackay wrote: > I note that mouse now has two plurals, depending on > whether rodents or > pointing devices are under discussion. > What? I've always heard "mice" for the plural of those pointing devices. Did someone say "mouses"? Or what would another plural form be? Mme Bahorel>> Isn't that the verb form? As in, "I moused my way over to the menu ...

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Message Date:	2000-01-18 02:27:58 UTC

492 Re: Mice, was Re: USA Today Review of BATM -- rank: 633

Close-- It was Jinx the Cat when Pixie and Dixie gave him trouble; and it was "I hates meeces to pieces." "Chatain, Christopher (UNKNOWN)" wrote: > Snagglepuss (the old Hanna Barbera cartoon cat) always used to say "I hates > mices to pieces" if I recollect correctly. > ---Chris > Still "UNKNOWN" at 42°05.059'N, 87°44.091'W > > --- Peter Mackay wrote: > > I note that mouse now has two plurals, depending on > > wh ...

Poster's Name:	William Nyden
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Message Date:	2000-01-18 00:08:17 UTC

493 Re: Mice, was Re: USA Today Review of BATM -- rank: 633

Snagglepuss (the old Hanna Barbera cartoon cat) always used to say "I hates mices to pieces" if I recollect correctly. ---Chris    Still "UNKNOWN" at 42°05.059'N, 87°44.091'W --- Peter Mackay wrote: > I note that mouse now has two plurals, depending on > whether rodents or > pointing devices are under discussion. > What? I've always heard "mice" for the plural of those pointing devices. Did someone say "mouses"? Or what would anoth ...

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Message Date:	2000-01-17 23:49:50 UTC

494 Re: USA Today Review of BATM -- rank: 633

Doug Essinger-Hileman wrote: > > On 15 Jan 00, at 9:06, Aime' Fraser wrote: > > > but that I scrupulously avoid it whenever possible. On > > this day, however, my very considerate spice handed > > over the offensive rag > > Would that be your very considerate nutmeg? or cinnamon? > > I remain, &c., > > Doug Essinger-Hileman > List Greeter Ordinaire > 39°51'06"N 79°54'01"W No, she just has a veddy, veddy upper crust ...

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Message Date:	2000-01-17 11:46:11 UTC

495 Mice, was Re: USA Today Review of BATM -- rank: 633

--- Peter Mackay <peter.mackay@EMS-SOLUTIONS.COM.AU> wrote: > I note that mouse now has two plurals, depending on > whether rodents or > pointing devices are under discussion. > What? I've always heard "mice" for the plural of those pointing devices. Did someone say "mouses"? Or what would another plural form be? Mme Bahorel ===== 42°02'47"N, 87°41'40"W (school) 40°30'45"N, 88°59'18"W (home)

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Message Date:	2000-01-17 05:39:50 UTC