For someone who volunatarily admits: "I must confess my first two sentences were lies" to accuse another person of a lack of credibility is typical Max style. Of course, he produced the misleading e-mail. There was another in which he made a promise to the effect that he will not engage me anymore. Unlike him, I did not keep copies of these idotic exchanges because they are not worth the hard disk space, but I have not admitted that I lie, then, now or in the future. I vaguely remember that a copy of the e-mail was also copied by him to someone else on one of the two lists, That person will know who is lying. At any rate, this is getting boring, and I wish he will stop. I told Michael off line that I will stop, but this pitbull just won't let go. Go do something useful, Max and pick on somebody white. Henry Max Sawicky wrote: > << 03 June 1999 19:06 UTC > > Typical. I did not engage him. Max engaged me by posting a lampoon on my > post which had not been addressed to him. As some one quoted Chomsky: In > American, facts matter little. I had thought that since the last encounter > with the incident of ridiculing my name, he would keep his direct off-list > promise to me to keep his distance. But not keeping his word to unworthy > people is standard procedure for him, apparently. Perhap this time I would > be lucky and earn his benign neglect. > > Henry C.K. Liu >> > > * * * > > The post referred to is reproduced below, verbatim. > > I must confess my first two sentences were lies. > > MBS > > --------------- > [May 2] > Dear Henry, > > I think you ought to consider re-subbing to LBO and PEN-L. My impression is > that your contributions are well-regarded by most. > > To me the lists are, among other things, a form of recreation that affords > the opportunity to kid and be kidded in return. Sometimes the jibes are > sharp, and sometimes one can misjudge the taste of others for this sort of > exchange. My tendency is to gauge the sharpness by the extent to which I > take exception to something I read, rather than by the disposition of the > individual targeted by some of my remarks. > > My joke made no reference to any racial stereotype about Chinese people. > Nor did it exploit any particularly Chinese aspect of your name. The sound > of "lou" has no particular connotation to Americans. In any case, I > certainly had no racist intent in punning on your name, and I regret any > hurt that it caused. I am not a sadist. I do enjoy kidding people. I > seldom kid people for whom I have no regard. There is little pleasure in > trading insults with someone whom one genuinely dislikes. > > So do come back. As for myself, I've written more e-mail than is good for > me and I'll be taking a vacation. Be well. > > Regards, > > Max Sawicky
