who's Christian?

Dave Monroe davidmmonroe at yahoo.com
Wed Jun 20 03:14:56 CDT 2001


Now is the time for all good ... okay, obliged to say
something here.  Right back atcha there, Cap'n ...

--- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
> 
> why don't you practise what you preach, both
> in your onlist snipes and
> your offlist intimidations of new participants, and
> not respond at all to
> the listers such as myself whom you so despise. I'm
> more than happy not to
> have to engage with you. So, how about it?

And now that I've become accustomed to his
(Levinasian?) face, I agree with Doug here, Terrance's
virtual visage is nigh-unto-always perfectly
recognizable, domino mask, nose glasses, Carmen
Miranda drag, whatever. And even if it wasn't ...? 
Boy, talk about yr logocentrism here, yr metaphysics
of presence, what have you--practice, preach, indeed. 
But always the most interesting and rewarding read
here ...
 
> Terrance's personas, both the ones which post from
> lycidas and those which
> don't, have in my opinion been an annoyance, both
> on-list and off, for
> several years. I stated that I'd rather not engage
> with him (or them) at
> all, in the interests of engendering a bit more
> civility here.

Civility or pedantic, passive-aggressive smarminess? 
Someone here once (well, more tahn once, repeatedly,
in fact, but ...) advised me (having been so advised
himself early on), "ignore jbor," but, hey, eternal
vigilance ... all right, I've vented for the month,
now back to ...

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