Dis'n'dat

Mattias Hallin Mattias.Hallin at jurenh.lu.se
Tue Feb 15 14:50:13 CET 1994


TRYG:

     Yep -- thass right; it's Henery Hawk! I have at least one cartoon
featuring him; possibly even the one that David referred to. Hey, David! Time
to 'fess up: what cartoon/which character didja have in mind?

Also, Tryg, if my postings are deifficult to read, it is probably due to how I
write'em: on a glorified-typewriter kind of texteditor on a VAX/VMS terminal
with no fringies like mouse, windows or desktop -- just command-words of the
"go-to" variety; and also the keyboard settings might play tricks -- I
obviously use a Swedish alphabet setting.

DON:

    Go on -- write as long postings as you like too; they're always good
reading, being well-written, funny, well-versed, opinionated and from a friend.
No need to stay short, 'lessen ya wanna.

And speaking of reading -- not that I think you're necessarilly wrong; but
huccome reading is such a little cared for pastime in America? I mean, out of a
pop. of approx 250 MILLION, there ought to be quite a few literati -- even
considering your statistically high rates of semi- or total analphabetism.

Here in Sweden, as you know, the problem has never been to get kids (or adults)
to read comics -- but that in intellectual circles, reading comics haven't
actually counted as really reading at all! There are PICTURES with the words!!!
That this is a completely off-the-mark concept has never bothered that
particular brand of nit-wits, who wouldn't know the first thing about what is
good comics or bad, and how comics rely on the INTERPLAY of word and picture,
and is in it's own way a perfectly complex and if so desired complicated
reading matter. Oh, well...

BJORN-ARE:

          No, we haven't discussed the reception in Norway of Gottfredson's
"Thursday".

All me usual best!

Mattias



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