[lit-ideas] Re: Link to "Mohammed" cartoons

  • From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 19:41:53 -0500

> [Original Message]
> From: Robert Paul <robert.paul@xxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 2/9/2006 2:35:20 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Link to "Mohammed" cartoons
>
> >>More matter and less repetition, please, Irene??
>
> > Are you illustrating what you mean by giving me no matter?  What don't
you
> > understand?  I have to log off again.  See ya later. 
>
> I was trying to ask you nicely to remember your promise to edit your 
> posts so that they didn't unnecessarily reproduce the entirety of the 
> posts you were replying to.
>
> You said before that you would do that and thanked people for asking you 
> to. There's nothing I don't understand here. There's something I see 
> very clearly: you don't remember what you earlier said, 


About what?



or you can't be 
> bothered to take five or ten seconds to edit your posts. The other 
> possibility is that in your haste to say something?anything?you feel 
> your needs trump collegiality on the list.
>


He cried: "Make haste, make haste to bow the knee!
  ...
See how he scorneth human arguments,
  So that nor oar he wants, nor other sail
  Than his own wings, between so distant shores. 
...


Dante took the words right out of Andy's mouth.  



> Robert Paul
> Reed College
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