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RIP Diana Wynne Jones

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7 Responses to “RIP Diana Wynne Jones”

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   Harry Payne
   March 27, 2011 at 2:56 pm

   “Jones’s work bears comparison to the Harry Potter series”…

   Charmed life – 1977

   Harry Potter and the Philisopher’s Stone – 1997.

   That’s 20 years later. I think you have that sentence back to front.

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     Biblioklept
     March 27, 2011 at 4:12 pm

     A sentence structured by comparison doesn’t always have to operate in a temporal manner.

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       Harry Payne
       March 27, 2011 at 4:38 pm

       True; but we do and tend to expect it.

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         Biblioklept
         March 27, 2011 at 9:44 pm

         “We”? — do you have a mouse in your pocket? Or are you just a fucking asshole? If you want to say something about the dead author, say something, but don’t nitpick my rhetoric.

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           Harry Payne
           March 28, 2011 at 5:23 pm

           I don’t presume to speak for mice, who after all may be pan-dimensional, hyper-intelligent beings, but we (that is, you and I, the two people in this conversation) are presumably human and thus operate in a one-way temporal manner.

           In fairness, Diana did compare her work to Rowling’s – thusly:

           “My books were written many years before the Harry Potter books, so any similariities probably come from what she herself read as a child.”

           She was far more polite than I and other acquaintances of hers been on the subject.

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             Harry Payne
             March 28, 2011 at 5:24 pm

             Sorry, that should have read: “…acquaintances of hers have been on the subject”. A temporary distraction from a small child, I’m afraid.

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