[lit-ideas] Re: New Year's Resolutions
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 15:36:51 -0500
Except that your complaints are not referred to in Phil's complaints. His
complaint was that I was talking about myself, when the part about "me" was
only a segue. Now he's complaining that I didn't comment on the poem, only
posted it. And you're using spelling to determine character? Deep. I
wonder why you don't just use the delete key instead of going into a
tirade? If you don't like my stuff, just don't read it and then you won't
get yourself all worked up. For the record, I'm giving myself until the
end of 2005 to post. After that, maybe I'll post a movie recommendation
now and again and maybe I won't, but that's all. Have a nice 2006, truly.
> [Original Message]
> From: Paul Stone <pas@xxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 12/31/2005 1:46:48 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: New Year's Resolutions
>
> At 12:47 PM 12/31/2005, you wrote:
> >I don't get it. I post a thing by T.S. Elliot. I segue into it with a
> >reference to my cat. Phil completely disregards Andrew Marvell and
> >Elliot, which is to say, nearly the entire post, focuses on the segue
and
> >complains that I'm writing about me. Now you call me Miss Information
and
> >telling me I'm scolding. Scolding? I'm wondering too, why couldn't you
> >just post Monty Python without the little intro?
>
> It's "eLiot"...
>
> Irene:
>
> I used the term "Miss Information" firstly, without the pun intended --
the
> literal parsing -- as someone who always is quick to offer us "the truth"
> but also retains the staggering ability to offer up misinformation. See,
> that's how the 'pun' works. {Yes, I'm being deliberately
condescending}.The
> secondary play on words was, I fear now, not appropriately displayed
> because the signifiee didn't understand the signfied.
>
> I'm fairly sure that Phil already knows about Mr. Eliot's contributions
to
> Broadway - and if you read with any care his posts, you would assume such
> things too -- and I might add that upon first reading, I also thought
that
> you were talking about your OWN cats -- before you posted the little bit
> from OPBOPC -- and I'm also well aware of Thom's contributions to Mr.
> Lloyd-Webber's musical. However, regardless (I suppose you might say
> irregardless) of whether ANYONE on the list knew the connection to the
> origin of Eliot's poetry, the WAY that you said it, sounded a bit
> condescending.
>
> You see, as the bullshit gets deeper and deeper, little inaccuracies
amount
> to HUGE doubts of character of the witness. As the ignorance is displayed
> on a daily basis, those of us who have given you an extremely wide berth
to
> tread all over with your 'insights' get a little punchy as we roll around
> with each successive pugilistic post. I just found it funny that in an
> informational paragraph -- I will still give you the benefit of the doubt
> that you were JUST informing Phil who Old Possum really was -- you
managed
> to incorrectly name said possum.
>
> As I read your repeated mispeling of the author's name, my mind jumped to
> the Pythoner's very astute parody and I posted it. So you see, the fact
> that you don't know WHY I felt the need to precis it with a little jibe
of
> my own is the very problem that I speak to -- you don't know.
>
> PkkS
>
> p.s. I deliberately misspelled "misspelling"
>
>
>
>
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