stupidity dialectical; or, how about them Mets!

[andrew at cee.hw.ac.uk]

MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu writes:
> 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 [this] 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?

The ha'penny reply is that a horse does not have horns. If you pay the
full Guinea, I will direct you to Johnson on the dangers attendant
upon milking the horned beast and Parson Yorick's sermon on the good
humour of the unhorned (at least in its Hobby variety).


Andrew Dinn
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