Re: F&SF that I Read in 2007: W

In article <slrng1p9vt.3c1.wnoise@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Aaron Denney  <wnoise@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>On 2008-05-03, James Nicoll <jdnicoll@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> 	Actually, there is a plot in a class of guardians who become
>> so eager to carry out their functions that they find danger where none
>> exists but that would be a different book than this one.
>
>I want to read that book.
>
	I think Harlan Ellison wrote something like that as a Batman 
story. Old pointy-ears spends the entire story looking for criminals 
to beat on but every time he tries to intervene, either the victims
deal with the problem themselves or it turns out that the situation 
was not what he thought it was.
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defending the English language [...]" T-****rt, cup and tote-bag needs)