From: mloy@iupui.edu (Mark Loy) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan Subject: Re: Lets give Robert Jordan an Award Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 10:44:00 -0500 Organization: Indiana University In article , James Bremner wrote: > In article <3DA6E860.FE99A9B8@nospam.raytheon.com>, > Mitchell_C_Swan@nospam.raytheon.com says... > > Kathana wrote: > > > > > > As a few of you might already know, Robert Jordan is elligible for > > > nomination into the SESFA Hall of Fame. Whats this? Well, is the South > > > Eastern Science Fiction Association's annual award. > > > The deadline for joining is November 1 and it costs 7 dollars to do > > > so. More information is on their website. > > > http://www.scifidimensions.com/sesfa/sesfa.htm > > > > > > I really hope that everyone helps with this, as it'll show Robert > > > Jordan just how much his books mean to us. > > > > WoT is SciFi? > > Cool, who knew? > > I imagine the people who set up rec.arts.SF.robert-jordan might have had > an inkling. :) > > But seriously, does the originator of the thread actually expect people > to pay $7 so that they might vote for an author to win an award he or she > has probably never heard of? Surely just paying for the books in the > first place was enough to "show Robert Jordan just how much his books > mean to us" Of course it isn't. And don't call me "Shirley". Robert Eugene Jordan isn't in this for the money: He is, above all else, a humanitarian dedicated to the proposition that all men should be free to read hundreds of thousands of words grouped together loosely into what passes for coherent sentences in an ongoing effort to use up every possible permutation of the entire English language. That and he's in it for the chicks. With that in mind I suggest that rather than join some half-assed association that gives out token awards as a way of justifying their own pitiful existence we, all of us, instead send me, Markus Areallyass Lachoy the piddlin' sum of _only_ six American--or fifty Canadian--dollars for which I will send RJ my sister's cootchie-coo gift wrapped, and succulently smelling of fresh-made salmon paddies sizzlin' in hot lard, resplendid with it's own life-support system, to do with as his acutely middle-aged mind might will. Now that...*that* shows Robert Jordan just how much his books mean to us. I'll accept cash, check, or charge...but hurry, this offer is limited and under the constraints of the Mann Act so don't delay! ML