David Silberstein wrote: > On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Ken Koester wrote: > >>The French killed off the notion of influence studies in literary >>criticism decades ago, > > How? Why? Well, the French heard that influence studies had gone to the Empire, possibly to reveal that not all great works were influenced by French works, so they hired a Jhereg assassin to take care of it. Unrevivifiable, of course. Luckily, since it wasn't Morganti, influence studies was able to live on in reincarnated form in this list, rasfw and other similar arenas. Jose -- Jose Marquez \ Cthulhu 2004 jhereg69 at hackwater.com \ Why vote for http://www.hackwater.com \ the lesser evil?