Ted MacNeil was absent from these precincts for some time. Recently he has returned, wrapped, like Batman, in a mantle of virtue: He is the sworn enemy of pretention, which in this case takes the form of some knowledge of the cyrillic alphabet.
Roles of this sort are perilous. They are likely to expose ignorance,. and they are very likely to distort content in defense of the virtue being defended. As Bertrand Russell put the matter, less charitably, "A stupid man’s report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand". John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
