GRGR(4)KK and "enthymeme"

Thomas Eckhardt uzs7lz at uni-bonn.de
Fri Jun 18 09:19:03 CDT 1999


Doug Millison wrote:

>At 9:21 PM +0200 6/17/99, Thomas Eckhardt wrote:
>[snip]
>>b) You say, in effect, that the statement that P's texts allow for various
>>readings is intellectual masturbation. This is once again an insult to
>>everybody who doesn't go along with your reading. Is this really necessary?

>
>I make no such insult. You misread my post and call me to task unnecessarily.

Doug is right and I apologize. What I thought was a gratuitiuos insult
directed against readers who do not find ultimate meanings in P's novels was
in fact, as Doug convincingly argued off-list, a reference to a previous
post of his in which he dealed with the kryptosam episode. I hadn't payed
attention to that post and slap myself on the pate for once again having
failed to prove a careful reader. 

Thomas



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