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[David]

Acire wrote:

> I have always drawn a strict line between 'literature' 
and 'fiction',
> and I honestly don't consider Harry Potter to be 'literature.' I 
> guess it depends on your opinion. I think literature includes the 
> literary canon, Shakespeare, Emmerson, Thoreau, Poe, and pretty 
much 
> anyone who wrote a book and is now dead. The classics. Fiction is 
> the stuff that's been published in the last 50 years, though there 
> may be a few exception that I don't remember at the moment. 

I love that!  Once 2047 rolls around, you only need wait for Jo to 
die and, *bing!*, Harry Potter is literature!

I probably won't be around to see it, so in the meantime, I shall 
have to settle for reading it as fiction.

David, realising that "Biggles Flies North" is literature