FW: The Rifles: An Excerpt

[jbor]

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From: jbor <jbor at bigpond.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 08:10:33 +1000
To: <teacher at inwind.it>
Subject: Re: The Rifles: An Excerpt


>> You brought the topic up, asked for discussion, and then dismissed and
>> misrepresented my interpretation without even offering an alternative
>> interpretation (I doubt that you even have one). Now you say you don't
>> have the time and are trying to blame me for the "I'm right, you're wrong"
>> drill you adopted. Whatever.
> 
> I brought the topic up weeks ago, before the Malta conference.

Yes, you did. You sent a couple of questions to the list; I guess you were
preparing your paper. I think I even sent you some info in a polite reply
offlist to which you never responded.

But you posted the excerpt from your Malta paper ("you felt you had to") and
asked for discussion last week. Stupidly I took the bait. Most recently,
after repeatedly correcting your misrepresentations of my interpretation, I
asked for a couple of page refs about the supposed KKK allusions you
mentioned, but you wouldn't even supply those. I haven't made any
"objections and suppositions" about anything you've posted -- you haven't
even offered an alternative interpretation, only dismissed and
misrepresented mine -- and I actually don't care if you respond or not, or
when you do. So there's no need to make up excuses.

But you do seem to have an awful lot of time to flame other people on the
list about the World Cup. So it goes I guess.

> Which 
> started on june 7--I don't know how quick the time flows in your
> monad, in mine it flows rather fast. Lots of things happened in the
> meantime. I say I don't have time because I have no time, and I don't
> blame anybody, I can only tell you that caffeine abuse is dangerous
> for your health. As I have already said, to answer your objections
> and suppositions I need to reread those parts of the novel, but
> that's something that takes time I do not have now--maybe next week.
> In the meantime, if this makes you feel good, you can doubt I have an
> alternative interpretation and you can also believe I am a blockhead.
> Help yourself! Who am I to hinder your pursuit of happiness?