answering a Malign post

Jerky tib at virtualservice.com
Thu Jan 4 13:09:03 CST 2001


At 01:54 PM 1/4/01 -0500, you wrote:
><< the rocket is central to the novel, without Holocaust slave labor there
>would be no rockets produced for the Nazis to launch, therefore the Holocaust
>is central to the novel.  Some of you objected to this formulation, more or
>less violently.  And of course you're all entitled to your opinions and I
>welcome your interpretations. >>
>
>My opinion is that the above formulation is both specious and banal.  Nice
>that you welcome it.

I put it to you that your opinion of the above formulation as being both 
specious and banal is, in and of itself, both specious and banal.

Cheers,
Jerky



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