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From: William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: The Demonization of Shakespeare
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2025 14:38:55 -0400
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Scott Dorsey wrote:
> In article <vt4v77$3s105$2@dont-email.me>, Titus G  <noone@nowhere.com> wrote:
>>
>> That is my experience as well. Although not stocked in the school
>> library, the public library kept up to date mainly with the yellow and
>> black Gollanz books. I appreciated and respected my English teachers but
>> was too immature to appreciate Shakespeare at that time.
> 
> My mother told me that nice people didn't read books like "Exiled on Earth"

In my mother's teen years a local paper ran SF reprints in its weekend 
magazine.  So when I started reading stories by Asimov, Heinlein, et al, 
some were already familiar to her and she enjoyed rereading them.

My father read Anderson's "Satan's World" declared it a pretty good 
yarn, so there was no trouble from that sector.  In fact I got a thick 
one volume H.G. Wells and the two volume "Penguin Modern Science 
Fiction" as a birthday gift.


> and my English teacher was horrified to hear that I was reading Asimov.

Our English teacher allowed the class to select one SF book which we 
would read and discuss.  Alas, the class selection was Philip Wylie's 
"Triumph", but even that was better than nothing. Still, it showed an 
open mind on his part.

My submitted stories in HS English were always SF.  I always got a 
terrible mark, but that was because they were terrible stories, not 
because they were SF.


William Hyde