Date: 2005-08-16 04:19 pm (UTC)
We sure Niall's quoting Westerfield in complete approval of the style? He picked that passage because he found it, and because it makes for a nice, strong contrast. Food for discussion. He also isn't saying that Knight's review is a bad one, or that either position is 'correct'. At least, that's not how I 'read' it; there's actually very little commentary at all by Niall himself here, and he's done, in the original post, little more than throw up a couple of supporting arguments.

Re: the use of the word 'Mundane' for 'Non-Fan', it's not one I'm comfortable with, and I know several other folk who were at WorldCon (I won't go so far as to say the whole 'third row', but still) feel the same way, ie. the way you do. I think we can all agree that Westerfield's got a bad, bad case of Fandom Poisoning, as you've so aptly described it.
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