More Tex, less Mex

john wells jwells at thecia.net
Thu Jul 3 16:30:16 CDT 1997


Peter 13 wrote:
> 
> Sojouner said:
> First of all, I am not a librarian.  I do not hold a degree in Library
> Science or in any other science.  The town which I work in may be
> small,
> but the library is not, so I do not see how your assumptions about me
> have
> anything to do with what I said.  I am a low-level employee who WORKS
> in a
> library, but I am neither dedicated to this field, nor is this my
> career.
> 
> Please let's stick to the subject, slippery as it may be, that you are
> riding high upon a white charger because an artificially created
> subculture's idioms and expressions were incorrectly represented in a
> work
> of fiction, which therefore insulted your sensibilities.
> 
> I say:
> Oh boy!  Sojouner has made a big mistake because right now good old
> Jules is probably on the phone with his boss trying to get him fired.  So
> much for the spirit of the sixties.  but what should one expect from a
> person who uses the internet to panhandle?
> 
> Sojourner is right.  Jules always changes the subject when he is
> proven wrong.  And he always reduces any discussion to an insult.  Like I
> said previously why would anybody expect a surrealistic novel to be an
> accurate report on real life?

Hey Pete, 

The spelling on this one is ok. I don't get it. What the hell happened
on the previous message?

john



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