[lit-ideas] Re: the bombing blues
- From: Judy Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 18:55:09 +0100
Saturday, July 9, 2005, 6:07:11 PM, Veronica Caley wrote:
VC> Regarding Julian RP, I find rather disturbing. Does the confusion between
VC> these two men mean that we read or understand what they write by whether we
VC> already like them or hate them? William RP is a leader in trying to expose
VC> the lies of the Bush administration. Julian RP is apparently someone
VC> universally hated on this list. I am not familiar with him, but clearly I
VC> ought to know his work, or at least about him.
Julian Pitt-Rivers was a social anthropologist and Hispanist
http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,551848,00.html
not universally hated or even universlly known on this List. As I read the
posts, Robert and I both as it were dyslexically transposed Rivers
Pitt into Pitt Rivers, with Pitt-Rivers in mind. I have no idea
whether Robert even met Pitt-Rivers, I certainly did not; I remember
him because his _People of the Sierra_ was recommended reading on
Spain for my LSE course.
(Robert may also be thinking of Julian Pitt-Rivers' great-grandfather,
who founded the Pitt Rivers Museum, but of whom I had, I think, never
heard.)
That, Veronica, is a polite, lengthy and boring way of saying, get a
grip.
>> [Original Message]
>> From: Robert Paul <robert.paul@xxxxxxxx>
>> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Date: 7/8/2005 7:56:51 PM
>> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: the bombing blues
>>
>> Judy Evans wrote:
>>
>> > Friday, July 8, 2005, 8:15:47 PM, Robert Paul wrote:
>> >
>> > RP> John McCreery sent us a piece by W. Pitt Rivers, from Truthout:
>> >
>> >>>William Rivers Pitt writes on Truthout (www.truthout.com)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > and I replied
>> >
>> >
>> >>so, Pitt Rivers is hardly
>> >>saying anything new
>> >
>> >
>> > perhaps we're both thinking of Julian Pitt-Rivers?
>>
>> Thanks. My apologies to Pitt Riverses all over the world, not just in
>> intellectual space. I was probably dyslexically thinking of the famous
>> anthroplogist.
>>
>> Robert Paul
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