--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Jul 2, 2007, at 12:11 PM, authfriend wrote: > > > No, actually he's gone way over it into actually > > lying (and so have you, if you read the posts in > > question). In fact, Barry was already heavily > > into intellectual dishonesty in his first reply > > to me. > > > > The height of the fences, as Barry knows (and as > > you know if you read my posts) is only one > > consideration. That they have openings in front > > but no gates to close them off is another; but > > the most important is that they're no different > > (except for being *more* open) than the fences > > most non-SUV houses have around them. > > > > In other words, Barry's rant about how TMers > > close themselves off from the rest of the world > > via the fences around their houses (complete > > with quote from "Masque of the Red Death") was > > just a stupid blooper that Barry made because > > he never looked at the photos of the houses in > > question. > > > > It was intellectually dishonest for him to > > pretend that his comments still had merit-- > > and to attack me for pointing out that they > > didn't. And it's intellectually dishonest for > > you to attempt to defend him (and attack me). > > Unless of course he was talking of fences as symbols....
"This was an extensive and magnificent structure, the creation of the prince's own eccentric yet august taste. A strong and lofty wall girdled it in. This wall had gates of iron. The courtiers, having entered, brought furnaces and massy hammers and welded the bolts. They resolved to leave means neither of ingress or egress to the sudden impulses of despair or of frenzy from within." Nope, nothing to do with fences as symbols here, sorry.
