zMan's post, with its tendentious use of a curiously graded set of explicated adjectives, reflects his views, to which he is amply entitled.
Why, however, did he feel a need to share them with us? I did not find in them any new information or even a new point of view. What the Italians call dietrologia---from dietro, Italian for 'behind', and logia, from logos, Greek for 'word'--- the study of what is 'really' behind manifest content, which all but the naif of course dismiss out of hand, is tedious when it is not sprightly. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
