In a message dated 3/31/09 6:10:40 PM, [email protected] writes: > What does it mean to say "poised like a politician"? > I "meant" solely that Richardson came across to me as someone who would parallel the grandson's mode of slipping in self-serving, self-complimenting bits. Richardson deserves to be proud of what he's done in service of Picasso's reputation, but it doesn't follow that I have to like him as he let's that pride motivate him. > > The rhetorical backwash of the pejorative remarks about Picasso's grandson > and the historian Richardson are probably intended to suggest that Picasso > himself was not very bright and was too "political" as well. Sneaky. > It's unwise to impute intentions to others on effectively no grounds. I'll take a guess that some time in your life you have lamented how the progeny of an estimable person fell so far short of their progenitor. Don't you think it would be unfair of me to cite your lamentation as merely a subtle way of putting down the progenitor?
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