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From: emshort@mindspring.com  (Emily Short)
>I will tell you two secrets.
>
>One is that there is no Cabal; the perceived "Establishment" consists,
>mostly, of those people who have done a large amount of work and written
>a good deal and who are therefore recognized by name.  That's it.  You can
>break into that group in perhaps six months to a year of hard work, if you
>care to, and it doesn't particularly matter what your politics are or

Okay, just waitasecond here.  There's no Cabal?  No secret membership?  Then
exactly what the hell has Plotkin been billing me for for the last few
years?



