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[still lookin 4 the face i had b4 the world was made]

On Fri, 23 May 1997, Charles F. Albert wrote:
> And, boy, do you deserve to get slapped around for your lack of 
> discrimination. 

Probably.  :)

I had said:
> > That may go for TRP in general as well.  Sometimes the paranoia is mixed
> > with, or maybe just a covering for, melancholia.
> 
> Maximus, I have heretofore saluted your brilliance, but part ways 
> with it here. I suspect that I am in the minority when I argue that 
> paranoia is a device that TRP employs, but is not necessarily a 
> symptom that he himself suffers. I see great relevance in JS's 
> assertions that TRP carries a credit card in his own name. It does 
> not strike me as consistent with a paranoid personality [...]

You caught me being sloppy.  When I spoke of "TRP in general," I did not
mean the man himself, about whom I cannot claim to know much at all.  I was
definitely referring to his writing. 

Max

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