the need to impersonate

jbor jbor at bigpond.com
Sat Oct 20 17:41:49 CDT 2001


> From: "The Great Quail" <quail at libyrinth.com>
>> Barbara, you are just kidding around, right? Do you really think jbor
>> is "blasphemous," and you wish him to stop reading Pynchon? Don't you
>> think this is just a little, well, fanatical? You are kidding, right?
> 

Paul Mackin at paul.mackin at verizon.net wrote:
> Barbara studied at the Doug School of Online Journalism. Are you kidding? is
> not the right question. There are no right questions. No questions, only
> tired old answers. The practitioner of online journalism hasn't invested
> much. Therefore anything goes. He can always close down and start up again
> tomorrow.

It's like sticking a pin into _GR_ and quoting passages at random as if it
were the _Bible_. It comes across like the ranting of an insane person, or,
an "insane persona" being worked up by a pimple-faced boy.

best




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