Homer, hyperbole & ad hominem

[jbor]

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>From: monroe <monroe at mpm.edu>
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> But do please note that not only have I not "*constantly* unleashed"
> "accusations" ("false" or otherwise) "and insinuations of Holocaust
> denial," I have not unleashed them at all.  Again, take care not to
> accuse others of not reading closely, of misreprenting any given text,
> when you do not return the courtesy ...

All that badgering which began last August when you were prognosticating
about "not wanting to prosecute the case yourself"? endlessly "wondering ...
about the stakes at hand"? accusing me of "exhibiting a certain anxiety
about discussing it, perhaps even trying to bypass the subject entirely,
writing it off as irrelevant and perhaps even offensive"? suggesting that I
was "working awfully hard to stomp out any reference to the Holocaust"? the
flood of such innuendoes perhaps reaching their highpoint with the rather
charming suggestion that, seeing as how I "love Blicero so much", I should
"just marry him"?

Well, whatever all *that* was, that is what I was referring to.


~~~
    "By 1945, the factory system - which, more than
     any piece of machinery, was the real and major
     result of the Industrial Revolution - had been
     extended to include the Manhattan Project, the
     German long-range rocket program and the death
     camps, such as Auschwitz.It has taken no major
     gift of prophecy to see how these three curves
      of development might plausibly converge, and
                before too long. ... "
                                 (T. Pynchon, 1984)
                                                    ~~~