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and that you'd try so desperately to not answer The Question so many of us
have straightforwardly asked you for. [JP]
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Judy and others:
It seems to me that you dislike what has been done, not that you're asking a
question.
The action you now seek, the 'answer' you'd prefer, would certainly
satisfy some; but it would thereby dissatisfy others who would then want
their 'question' answered... And so on, like Swift's fleas.
Concentrating upon personalised issues of this sort throttles real
discussion (about poetry and the ETCs) in favour of futile and rebarbative
exchanges about perceived scandals and email hanging chads. Peter Cudmore's
mother put it both earlier than I did and much better, but my point is hers
in its essence.
There are just three realistic options, in other words, and only those
three: (a) get used to the action taken, let the 'question' drop and
contribute to the List in ways that may attract both new and former members;
(b) leave the List, or else (c) destroy it from within.
I hope you will choose the first.
CW
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'The Question
has destroyed you.'
(Neruda)
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