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Re: N word again



Anthony Rzepela sez:

 > A consistent policy would be nice, though. 
 > 
 > With the disclaimer put up in advance that
 > I realize that "Oath" and "RnRN" could be 
 > as many as ten years apart in age, and so 
 > the younger has more time to become distasteful
 > to the original author, I still find it a bit 
 > difficult to swallow that she still finds the
 > younger one meaningful and appropriate and utterly 
 > immune to some kind of reworking the way the old
 > 60's "Gloria" has substituted for "Oath" recently.

I think there's a difference here: Patti *disagrees* now with her sentiments
in Oath, while she merely thinks she was *naive or presumptuous* with
R&RN--not necessarily wrong. I don't see any inconsistency.

--Bob Farace