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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
Comparisons with Ellison are pointless: He is one writer, an @$$ besides, and not one anybody should be using as a character guide.
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Harlan Ellison isn't there as a role model. Quite the converse: he's there as a metric for how "good" a writer's writing has to be before I'm willing to spend my time and/or my money to subsidize noticeably "bad" behaviour.
I'll put up with a certain amount of the latter if sufficient talent to offset a proportionally minor offense is there, but there are limits. Even for Ellison (which is why I only buy his most classic stories during deep-discount sales).