Re: The Red Violin WAS Re: playing outdoors

J. Teske <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in 
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:

> Absolute nonsense that one has to be a musician or a practicing
> violinist to write fiction about the instrument.  An author aspiring
> to such things has to go no farther than this NG to check out nitty
> gritty details.  You will get sufficient input to write these details
> anyway you choose :-).
> 

Maybe the best example of this is William Gibson, who set his novel 
_Neuromancer_. In addition to setting portions of the novel in Japan, which 
he had never visited, he coined the word "cyberspace" while writing on a 
typewriter, since he didn't own a computer.

Bob

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