Bono, Steve Jobs, etc.

[Carvill, John]

>> your conclusion, that I "really" am part of the thinking 
world, is just what I said:  the thinking world certainly includes me.

Could you be any more literal-minded?!

>> Lot of fuss and fervor over a term that means nothing more than "those 
with an opinion (about this)."

No fuss at all. But you are attempting to spin the matter a tad. The clear intention of what you originally said was to make a distinction between (a) a statement that *you* disagreed with me, and (b) a claim that 'the thinking world', including you (of course), but not me, disagreed with me.

You can't throw out gratuitous insults and then act all surprised when the target takes umbrage.



-----Original Message-----
From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf Of malignd at aol.com
Sent: 07 January 2010 22:22
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: Re: Bono, Steve Jobs, etc.

Perhaps there's some talmudic subtlety I'm missing or, more likely, 
not, but your conclusion, that I "really" am part of the thinking 
world, is just what I said:  the thinking world certainly includes me.

Lot of fuss and fervor over a term that means nothing more than "those 
with an opinion (about this)."

Nevertheless, I am flattered by the effort, however tortured, to come 
up with a mot that is, alas, not so bon.


-----Original Message-----
From: Carvill, John <john.carvill at sap.com>
To: malignd at aol.com <malignd at aol.com>; pynchon-l at waste.org 
<pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thu, Jan 7, 2010 4:13 am
Subject: RE: Bono, Steve Jobs, etc.


But this is exquisite self-parody. Wonderful stuff.You *think*, you 
say, that the 'thinking world' agrees with you, and disagrees with me? 
QED: you 'think', therefore you really *are* part of the thinking 
world.-----------------------------The thinking world certainly 
includes me and disagrees, I think I can say, with you. Which is not to 
say that you should change your position.  "To each their own." (sic)