[lit-ideas] Re: Alternatives to one-upmanship
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 10:20:05 -0400
Omar, I got used to it a long time ago that they'll turn on you in a split
second. That's just the way people are. It's interesting that when I read
that thing on the metrosexual I thought you were just playing. Eric took
it as some sort of affront. Then we wonder why wars happen.
> [Original Message]
> From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 8/12/2006 10:04:06 AM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Alternatives to one-upmanship
>
>
>
> --- John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I do like Ansel Adams, but I also know enough about
> > photography to
> > know that while we talk about black and white, the
> > effects I admire
> > depend on the carefully controlled depth and
> > clarity of the grays.
> > Adams' photographs are not at all the crudely
> > sketched line-art
> > caricatures that is all our debaters here seem
> > capable of.
>
> *Well, John, it's a well-known fact in chess that the
> kibitzers see everything best - until they actually
> sit at the table. I don't remember actually expressing
> any position, extreme or otherwise, in the recent
> discussion, among other reasons because I wasn't sure
> what the discussion was about. (Unless, like Phil, you
> know what I think even though I am not saying it.)
> Mostly I confined myself to teasing Eric and Phil. To
> present this as evidence of the limits of my
> intellectual capacities seems rather ungenerous - but
> then perhaps that is what I should expect.
>
> O.K.
>
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