> I am a little sad about the list abuse which is presently occuring. See
> how you feel after a couple of weeks of wading through logorrheic posts
> and a rash of ill-tempered resignations, which have already started.
> I've seen a list trashed before and it's not a pretty sight.
>
Absolutely. Effervescence is fine, but this stuff of the last few days....
One of the worst things is that there were maybe some potentially
developable points amid the wind-rush, maybe even from some of the
'villains'. So how pointless all the parts waving has been.
Cheers, boss!!
David
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Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 10:07 PM
Subject: Re: Blessed silence
> Doug wrote:
>
> >but will say that, aside from just nt being all that nothered by the
byplay
> >(it was read & dumped quite quickly), I do think the 'original' (hah!")
> >Kent Johnson, in his excerpts from the interview, had some interesting
> >points to make, & that (although I'm not sure I could ever create useful
> >heteronyms; but do like to collaborate with other texts, & therefore,
> >perhaps, lose 'self' as such in the act of writing) the problems he
> >approaches are ones we could & can take seriously.
>
> Yes, I agree - though I could wish the discussion could occur without
> some of the surrounding material.
>
> I am a little sad about the list abuse which is presently occuring. See
> how you feel after a couple of weeks of wading through logorrheic posts
> and a rash of ill-tempered resignations, which have already started.
> I've seen a list trashed before and it's not a pretty sight.
>
> Best
>
> Alison
>
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