"'Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own. In Poets as true Genius is but rare, True Taste as seldom is the Critic's share; Both must alike from Heav'n derive their light, These born to judge, as well as those to write. Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well; Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not Critics to their judgment too?"
--Alexander Pope/excerpt from - An Essay on Criticism--
From: Erik Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: It seems over... Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2004 07:07:11 -0500
But I think that your comments, Warren, have often been incoherent. When they have been comprehensible, they have tended to be absurd, irrational, and contrary to facts. I have found most of your posts to be nearly worthless. You really need to try MUCH harder if you want to persuade people of anything, or even if you want to avoid appearing the fool.
Among the many fanciful notions contained within your banefully targeted bluster - which really is nothing more than a preamble to an undignified instance of gratuitously belittling egotism - I feel most compelled to point out, that the rather haughty presupposition that you are actually in a position to make an objective judgement on the inherent worth of anything Warren posts, sticks out as the most pompous of them all, and is quite contradictory in nature, as well as being downright defeatist in practice. And why a man of your artfully advertised calibre would choose to employ such a device is beyond me. Why, it's little more than antithetical rhetoric! So in the future please keep in mind that you really need to try MUCH harder if you want to persuade people of anything, or even if you want to avoid appearing the fool...
And now for a partial digression, derived solely from my own personal feelings toward all things asshole:
People like you Erik, make me sick. You represent all that is boorish and stale in terms of the artful presentation of the written word, and to top it off, you have the audacity to try and present yourself as an overlord in the very arena where interaction with others happens through the aforementioned medium. Moreover, in showing undisguised disdain for those with an equally undisguised deftness with words, and concurrently participating in again, the aforementioned medium, you show yourself to be quite the contradiction in and of yourself.
Anyway I don't have a graph to back this up so...ah...I guess this is nearly worthless...
PS - Give my regards to T'lar next time you're visiting Mt. Seleya.
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I will now (for what it's worth) demonstrate (and without any offlist interaction) a verifiable demonstration of the 'concreteness' of abstraction:
So Warren, whaddya think? Rooter or Righter (let us not forget the connotations of 'righter')
-Travis "I encourage everyone to feel free to chide me for my ad hominem behaviour/I'm just a bad seed" Edmunds
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