P defends V. ...

[Robin Landseadel]

Funny, until a week ago everybody thought the introduction was swell.

You're in no position to call anybody's writing "muddled."

By the time you get to the end of the intro's 20 pages, it's perfectly  
clear that the author thinks that some of his early work is  
embarrassing.

Self-criticism's really remarkable, Terri—you should try it sometime.

On Aug 30, 2010, at 6:05 AM, alice wellintown wrote:

> Of course not. That SL Introduction that has casused so much
> confusion, yet again, mentions that Edmund Wilson's _To The Finland
> Station_, and I posted, what I thought might even prove a useful
> Introduction, recently written by an author who writes with extra
> clean prose (L. Menand), unlike our Man in Manhattan, to that
> influential work. And, I noted that in that muddled SL Introduction,
> our Man does hint that his obsession with race (a complex American
> habit), evident in TSI and in GR has been tempered by his realization
> that race is not as significant as Class.  This kind of thinking is
> clearly on display in the post-GR works.