stupidity dialectical; or, how about them Mets!

[MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu]

Whew!! Trying to follow the bouncing hot air balloon gets really hard sometimes!!!

Noting this Mittelwerk/Andrew exchange:
>
>Mittelwerk at aol.com writes:
>> fetishizing contradictions is not a dialectical procedure.  it is salon
>> relativism.
>
>So it is. But what exactly is apropos? I don't recall anyone
>fetishizing contradictions unless maybe it's that excluded middle
>school of Pynchon critics who seem to think that one can ride between
>the horns of one's cow when really one ought to trade it in for a
>horse.

My tentative question, andrew, is--are you suggesting the critic make
 this trade because you have learned it is easier to ride between
 the horns of your horse than it is between the horns of your cow?

john m