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Irrelevant to the rest of the sentence. If you want to deal with Kaul's agnosticism in a new sentence, fine by me, but spare us the non-encyclopedic tone of appearing to lecture a dying man on his lack of religion. (RIP Donald Kaul.) |
This one, too. Put anything about Kaul being an agnostic in a separate sentence. Don't connect it with his death, that's insensitive and hostile. |
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But liberalism had little to do with the fun he had claiming credit for terms defining girls’ basketball: “standing jump shot, the slow-break offense, the near-dribble.”<ref>{{Cite book|title=They’re All in It Together: When Good Things Happen To Bad People|last=Kaul|first=Donald W.|publisher=Andrews and McMeel|year=1991|isbn=|location=Kansas City|pages=119}}</ref> Or, in a years-long harangue against ''The Sound of Music'', he said the film is so syrupy that it stands alone “on the condemned list of the Association for the Prevention of Diabetes.”<ref>{{Cite book|title=THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT AND OTHER ENTERTAINMENTS|last=Kaul|first=Donald|publisher=Image & Idea|year=1979|isbn=|location=Iowa City|page=|pages=x, Preface}}</ref>
He took a break from writing, then decided to resume, just before the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre. It spurred his “madder-than-hell” call for ending gun violence. “Repeal the Second Amendment, the part about guns anyway,” he wrote, urging that the NRA be declared a terrorist organization and that owning an unlicensed assault rifle be made a felony.
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