NP Readership (was ...

Doug Millison millison at online-journalist.com
Mon Aug 26 13:36:35 CDT 2002


Mr T:
>Owen doesn't think it was a joke.

You're reading Owen's mind these days?

>Doug hates what he thinks is deconstruction and postmodernism,

You're obviously not reading mine.

>but he is
>by far the most adept practitioner of what he thinks are the worse
>things about these; (mostly because he likes to accuse Robert of
>postmodern/deconstructive abuse), the language games, the re-writing of
>texts, the confusion or blending of traditional literary terms like
>writer and reader.

You think this is accidental?  I like playing word games.  I play them with
you and the rest of my P-listers here all the time. And so do you, as you
indulge yourself in the very practices you condemn.



>Good game. I don't want to be arbiter. Don't need one. It's just a
>friendly match in the park. I lay my king on his side and shake hands.
>Or I just keep my pragmatic sense of humor and remember that education
>is both enlightening and humbling at the same time.

You really are full of it -- equal to the best of us.  I'm giving you the
benefit of the doubt and assume that you do know what you're doing, at
least some of the time.



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