[lit-ideas] Re: who is Jack Spratt?
- From: Jack Spratt <dosflounder@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 12:45:02 -0700 (PDT)
Hey it's bandwagon time. I still am amused at your naivete. What if I said that
there is NO good reason for me to believe that you are in Canada? Nothing you
can say will convince me that you are not really in Detroit. But I do not care
where you are or who you are. I do care what you think and express on the list
because this a source of relaxation for me. I will defend my positions here and
even accept being wrong but I will not engage in silly challenges to my
existence.
I must say that I find Lawrence's doggedness against all the attacks on his
posts refreshing. A veritable territorial bulldog, and I know bulldogs. You and
Eric on the other hand seem to be running around me in circles chasing your
tails. Get focused and let's have some fun with the issues.
J.S.
The one thing we lack is a handy utopia.
Paul Stone <pas@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
At 02:19 PM 9/5/2006, you wrote:
>Jack Spratt wrote: I also would like to know what you are talking about.
>If you have a problem with where I live then say so.
>
>
>I doubt your identity Jack, based on what you wrote about NYC. Here's why:
>
>* Your comment about living near the "piers" is inexact; if you lived near
>the real piers on 46th, you'd say they lived in Midtown not Chelsea; if
>you lived near Chelsea Piers, the giant sports complex, you'd say "Chelsea
>Piers" not just "piers";
>
>* a New Yorker who never uses the subway, but only uses cabs, would have
>to be very wealthy indeed; you also claim to use car service, which is
>more a function of the outlying boroughs like Queens than of Manhattan;
>
>* a New Yorker so afraid of the subways would probably be elderly, so not
>very adept at E-mail.
I was the first one to "doubt" [Andy's Irony-inducing quotes] Mr. Spratt's
identity, but I don't really care if "they" are from Chelsea or Chelsea
Piers or Midtown. What I was pointing out, as I think Phil Enns has done a
little more eloquently is that as a pseudonymous identity, Mr. Spratt's
"reason" is cast in doubt as well.
There is NO good reason that I can think of, other than hiding behind a
pseudonym, for using one, except to be exceptionally quaint (is that
redundant?). This is an open email list. If you can't put your name to
something, and "you" need to use a "they" to post, then maybe you should
ask yourself whether or not your opinions should be counted.
The only other pseudonymous person I can think of who posted in any
constant capacity was "phatic" but everyone who actually followed along
knew this was a person named "Torgeir Fjeld" who maintains an actual blog,
WITH his picture on it.
emphatically,
p
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Paul Stone
pas@xxxxxxxx
Kingsville, ON, Canada
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