Response (Last one, I swear)

rj rjackson at mail.usyd.edu.au
Fri Sep 24 19:03:23 CDT 1999


> find and quote one single line in the archives that
> even implies that I believe the reviewer to be a Holocaust-denier

On Mon, 20 Sep 1999 10:04:19 -0400 (EDT) "Derek C. Maus"
<dmaus at email.unc.edu> wrote:

> > According to A.P. Riemer, Todorov's "remarkable" and "superb" study is
> > not to be regarded as "merely another book about the Holocaust .... "
> 
> Because, geez, what's more boring that hearing *another* complaint about
> how a lot of people were systematically executed?


With all due respect, I do seriously doubt that H.L. Mencken, Helene
Cixous and Harold Bloom's boots are daily set aquiver by your brand of
petulance and sarcasm, nor by the type of gross distortions and
rhetorical grandstanding you indulge in.



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