Jules

[mglosup at randomc.com]

On  5 Nov 96 at 21:23, Jules Siegel wrote:

<preliminary complaints re: flames not involving me deleted>
  
> But the book hustle roundhouse did split my face in half.

This was not my intention at all. 

> That common criminals were more deserving. 

I never stated "common criminals" were more deserving than you. There 
are a lot of people involved with the American criminal justice system
who are less than criminal. But in any case I wasn't implying that serial 
murderers and child molesters should be considered over you.

>The presumption of bad faith. 

I didn't presume bad faith on your part.  I thought your "book
hustle" lampoon  was quite funny.  I never thought that your request
was a scam, just a tacky addendum to what I perceived as a pattern
of obnoxiousness. And now I'm rethinking that judgement--the tacky
addendum part anyway.

>The jealousy of my good fortune. 

Not an issue. 

>Ignoring the value of the reciprocation I offered.

Now we're getting somewhere, as in the part where you are correct.
I devalued your efforts.  You gave freely of your time and your work
and I should have thanked you instead of snidely denouncing you.

> Skipping over the fact that we would donate books we didn't want 
>to a local institution.

Guilty. I conveniently, unjustifiably ignored this originally.

> What a horrible dose of that ignorant American self-righteous Puritananical 
>meddling that I ha ve hated all my life. They just feel they have a God-given 
>right to judge others need and human social value. The Elect. 100% Yankee
> do-gooder poison.

I resemble that remark.

> The Hotel Zone sells only awful trashy thrillers and romance paperbacks at
> absurd prices. Cancun itself is a post-revolutionary development in a
> post-revolutionary society. Print is superfluous. They come in from some 
>remote Yucatecan town with a palm-thatch school room and they go directly
> to computer school. Books don't like the humidity, either. Cockroaches eat the
> paper and the glue.  This is the Third World. Underdevelopment applies to 
>information as well. There are hardly any libraries here and the only English
> books they do have are those left in hotel rooms and then donated by the hotels.
> I can't afford to buy books by mail. So we are just going crazy for lack of
> reading material that doesn't talk back direspectfully and unexpectedly bring 
>news that yet another revered elder has fallen.
  
You gave us an abridged version of this in a previous post.  I also 
negligently ignored it in my original attack on your request.

<political conspiracy theories deleted>

I sincerely apologize to you Jules, for discounting your needs but
especially for misrepresenting your appeal. Before I wrote this
response, I reread your comments accompanying your posting of the
Playboy article. My response is very different for having done so.

You quite graciously requested that anyone wishing to show their
appreciation do so by helping you obtain quality reading material
which is a difficult task in your circumstances. In the context of
those long ago times and in the context of the sum of your postings,
I read it differently. I hope you accept *this* as non-crocodilian
remorse for undeserved attacks I made on you and gratitude for your
generosity of time and effort.  

I also apologize to the list for any s/n ratio fluctuations you may
have experienced.  Resume flaming on other fronts. 


Michael Glosup