old news

Dave Monroe against.the.dave at gmail.com
Thu Mar 12 09:18:38 CDT 2009


On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Bekah <Bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> I really ought to read through all the posts before I comment -  I see I've
> erred twice in 24 hours inadvertently  duplicating the comments of others.

For my part, this seems nothing really to worry about.  Nor is posting
info someone else might already have posted.  We may all be in
(roughly) the same conversation (or, at any rate, in the various
conversations that make up the Conversation that IS teh P-List), but
throigh the magic of writing (Derrida contra Plato here), of the
archive, of electronic storage, of search engines, et al., we can
respond  to any given post at any given time, can weave in and out
however we see fit (or however the messages happen to fall in our
inboxes), u.s.w., et soforthiam.  Multiple, similar posts simply
reiforce that something is In the Air, is Of Interest.  It doesn't
hurt to remind us all of something of interest every once in a while.
And as we all enter the various conversations here at different times,
me, I'd hardly want to squelch anyone's enthusiasm by playing jaded
and saying, yeah, we've heard it all before (not in the least because
it's often easier to post than to see if your post has in essence been
posted already, if the latter is possible at all).  U.s.w., et
sforthiam ...




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