From: Denise I. Matulka <dimatulka>
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 16:35:47 +0800

I wholeheartedly agree with Nick!

Reading fiction requires the willingness to suspend disbelief...it is not necessary to abandon one's own belief system.

By the way for thise who haven't seen the latest issue, Horn Book's Nov/Dec issue is dedicated to politics and religion as they pertains to children's literature....

Denise I. Matulka Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign dimatulka at alltel.net matulka at uiuc.edu
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She was a woman sawed in half It was done by a bad magician There was a point at which she just had to laugh You could appreciate her position

Her legs in one way, and her head another She just kept thinking about...walking away They tried to put her back together underneath the cover But her heart kept getting in, getting in the way

 From "Woman Sawed in Half" (1997) John Hiatt
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