Prognostication on the P-list

[David Gentle]

> I'm not a fortune teller--I don't even play one on the Tube--but I 
> estimate
> that the revived personal sniping on the list--you know, wherein maybe 
> 3-10
> folks involve the rest of us in regurgitating the same bile that they
> already regurgitated years ago--can be expected to continue through the
> release of Against The Day and then go on at least through the inaugural
> discussion of the book here. So let's see...I figure there could be *at
> least* a year more of this. Another fucking year!
>
> Now, if you're a believer in immutable destiny, you'll accept that some
> talented and intelligent but ultimately pitiable people just can't help 
> but
> waste their energy with this bile-spewing for a least another whole year,
> and that said spewed bile will turn up in our email, be read by any media
> types who might come by here, and remain enshrined in the archives for 
> years
> to come.
>
> But if you're a believer in--gasp--free will, you'll understand that those
> talented and intelligent people consciously elect to spend a certain 
> portion
> of their lives regurgitating said bile, fully realizing that hundreds of
> other onlooking subscribers already got the point. Then again, if you're a
> believer in free will, you'll recognize that it's possible that those
> talented and intelligent people will, after all these years, finally elect
> to suck it up, accept the fact that they might never be reconciled with 
> 1-10
> people who also happen to be on the mailing list, and lay off the sniping.
>
> Mixing metaphors,
>
> list nanny d.
>

You realise you were destined to say all that, right?

David Gentle
another agent of destiny