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Old 08-19-2016, 10:48 AM   #245
peter12
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Well yes, obviously the most common criticism towards the writing of, say, John Lennon or Stephen Fry or Tim Minchin or Christopher Hitchens or Umberto Eco or Kurt Vonnegut or Margaret Atwood or Neil deGrasse Tyson or Karl Popper or Jean-Paul Sartre is that they're "bland".

Or you know, Gloria Steinem. Or Christopher Hitchens.

I'll give you Asimov though. And Roddenberry.
All of those guys and gals are really bland.

I don't think you can call Sartre a humanist.
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