FYI: how it works

[Doug Millison]

1. "jbor" asks a relatively innocuous-sounding question or makes a 
reasonably polite statement.

2.  Interlocutor responds, on topic and in a civil tone.

3.  "jbor" takes part of interlocutor's response, rewrites/ twists it 
into something "jbor" can read as an attack, and responds in kind.

4.  Interlocutor, understandably, questions "jbor's" rewrite and 
asserts that interlocutor made no such attack, again in a civil tone.

5. "jbor"
"You are obviously offended by the fact
that I
have dared to try and discuss them with you, though I have no idea why
this
should be the case, so let's just forget it."

It's yet another tactic -- we've previously discussed "jbor's"  red 
herring and ad hominem attacks --   that "jbor" has used to stop many 
a promising conversation on Pynchon-L these past couple of years.
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