Dan Minette wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Marvin Long, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 10:41 AM
> Subject: Re: I need a reality check on aisle 2
>
> >
> > In any event, Jeroen, if you do go through with this idea, make sure you
> > read all my past arguments with Gautam and John. I'm pretty sure you can
> > find good things to accuse me of there (better than almost anything I've
> > said to you, in fact) and I'd hate for your list to be incomplete.
>
> Marvin, I'm hurt to the quick. So I'm not important enough to include all
> the sly post modern digs you have gotten at me in our metaphysical
> discussions on the "you've been a bad bad Marvin page?" Indeed, your last
> post should be included in your list of bad behavior, because one can
> deconstruct it to be horrendeously insulting to me. Wait, Julia wasn't
> mentioned either. And from PoMo we know ommissions are very important.
> Julia, you might consider going over to Marvin's house and slapping his
> fingers for the both of us.:-)
Well, see, Dan, you make assumptions about the relationships involved
that aren't accurate.
1) You assume that I find the omission insulting. You fail to take
into account the friendship I have with his wife, such that if I were to
be mortally insulted, it would get back to her, and she could do a heck
of a lot more than slap his fingers on my behalf.
2) You assume that your relationship with me might be enough to warrant
my driving down to his house and slapping his fingers on your behalf.
First of all, a finger-slap on someone else's behalf isn't worth the
hassle of either getting Dan to watch Sammy or getting Sammy into the
car for the trip. Second of all, Marvin has a black belt in some
martial art or another, and I have witnessed some of his skills in this
department myself. I don't want to get into a situation where he might
instinctively react in defense.
3) You assume that I don't have a lot of other stuff to be doing.
4) In fact, I'm not sure that I can really fit Marvin into my schedule
until long about Tuesday, maybe over lunch, and I can't really leave
Sammy with Dan without prior scheduling, and the best restaurant to take
Sammy to that's anywhere near where Marvin works has a bunch of
employees that know us by sight, and I don't want to do anything to
lessen their opinion of me, such as, oh, I don't know, finger-slapping
Marvin.
So, I don't think I'm going to slap Marvin on the fingers.
;)
Julia
