European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 10, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Best sellersfiction1 cold fire by Dean r. Koontz last week 1 weeks on list 3 a 2 the secret Pilgrim by John be carry last week 1. Weeks on list 4 \ a 3 the Plains of passage by Jean m. Auel last week 3 weeks on list 17. 4 Battleground by . Griffin last week 5 weeks on list 3 \ r 5 the fourth k by Marto Puzo last week 4 weeks on list 5 a 6 Circle of friends by Maeve Bitchy last week 8 weeks. On list 3.  7 Possession by . Byatt last week 7 weeks on list 11. 8 dazzle by Judith Krantz last week 7 weeks on list 11 9 vital signs by Robin Cook last week 6 weeks on list 4 10 Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton last week 9 weeks on list 11. A. A non fiction t 1 the prize by Daniel Yergin last week 2 weeks on list 2 a a. Ca. A. A a. A. 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Ward with Ric Burns and Ken Burns a a a. A 4 Iron John by Robert Bly. 5 the new russians by Hedrick Smith 6 Power shift by Alvin Tottler 7 the cat and the curmudgeon by Cleveland Amory 8 get to the heart by Barbara Mandrell with George Vecsey �?�8 Meg trends 2000 by John Naisbitt and patricia10 the great Waldo search by Martin Handford its hard to put up with foolish rules James j. Kilpatrick Universal press Syndicate a Reader in Corvallis ore., wrote me a a few weeks ago about a Rule on prepositions thereby joining a Long a a list of readers who have inquired about or drawn my attention to a variety of so called rules. As a matter of fact some computer software people sent me material proclaiming that their contraption would test my column against 5,000 a that is five thousand rules. I said goodness  i worked All afternoon i might produce a list of 10 or 15 rules of composition that arc pretty Well ironclad plus another 15 or 20 rules having to do with punctuation but that would be it. The notion that English is governed by 5,000 rules is a fatuous notion. Scrub it. A my Friend in Oregon sent what he termed a a gentle reminder about prepositions. He kind a by cited a Rule that two prepositions must not be juxtaposed. A preposition must never appear at the end of a sentence. The gentleman underlined sentences from a recent column in which i had said a let me ramble on a and a Law Bill Knock it  i said that some writers a show off with biblical allusions. I was creeping a up on my  i let me respond in the same quiet gentle and courteous fashion. A arg the gentleman is suffering from the widespread delusion that once a preposition always a preposition. Hokum in hundreds of instances what appear to be prepositions Are in grammatical fact part of the verb they re attached to take for example Quot take Quot the Day care proposal is about to take off. The committee will take it up. The chairmanship is another Burden for her to take on. It is now the turn of the contras to take Over. Four movies a Day is More than even a patient critic it an take in. Or i you like take  in perfectly proper usage we have put on put to put Down put up put Over. Pots boil Over. Troops fall in. Ships come about in these instances the apparent prepositions function As auxiliary adverbs. As one Wise Man said it is a cherished super station that preps unions must Cvar end a sen. Tence. Forget it thinking of rules that cause trouble Isnit it time for the wire services and major newspapers to reconsider their Rule on marital honorific some years ago in a spasm of sexist guilt or literal  associated press stopped identifying a woman As a mrs a in october Philip Romerstein died and his wife Rose was injured in an air plane Accident. Reported the apr a Romerstein had just returned from the lavatory and Romerstein was on his Way to one when the dc-9 hit  the Apps Rule is foolish. But then Romany rules Are. It february 10.1991 sunday Page 9