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On Wed, 26 Sep 2001 11:25:03 +0200, Martin J. Walker <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >It's a pleasure to follow the veiled hostilities & darting of foils on the >list. I wandered into a _Guardian_ chat area the other day & whoo! what a >bleeding battlefield of profane opprobrium. But it very soon loses its >savour, whereas here one can taste the malice on the tongue, appreciatively >yours >mj Malice, you mean as cruelty, hatred, hostility ? Oh, no, dear John, these are Special Exclusive Feelings one reserves to real antagonists: you are reading here of verbal exchanges between strangers, utterly unknown dialoguers, gathering here to talk to each other of fear, exasperation, discontent, worry, exacerbation of ideologies, in the attempt to feel the gap between the universe of the words and the real world, failing to find a way to reconcile them.