Please, please can we not keep these personal sneers off a list that
means a great deal to all of us. Fran
kent johnson wrote:
> Martin,
>
> Thank you. Yeterday, I was merely responding to Candice's silly and smarmy
> smear, though it was a gentler version of the kind she bizarrely slung my
> way during the jihad last month launched by David Hess and his
> spontaneously-combusting adjutant, Carlo Parcelli. But as I said, I don't
> want to get back into the whole issue. Let it be.
>
> But I DO want to respond to one thing you said.
>
> You said,
>
> >I am impelled to comment on the recent "Lind-wurm thread (the dragon of
> > >formalism) and the turn to the aggrieved putdown in your last mail...
>
> No Martin, shining knight: The "dragon of formalism" is a fierce and good
> and many-headed dragon. Please don't think I've thought a meeting here with
> Lind and comrades, who are, at best, a broken horn on the one senile head at
> the torso's far right, would be for purposes of slaying "formalism".
>
> Not at all. Long live formalism.
>
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