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Dear Duc,
I'm American, so the word doesn't have the same shock
value for me as for the British folk on the list.
I share your disappointment. But take heart, in a few
years the debunkers may be debunked. It's been known
to happen.
MG
--- [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Sorry, Marjorie.
> Geoge chastised me and told me to tell everyone I
> was sorry for using a word,
> which I later explained was Australian slang rather
> than anything -- to quote
> him -- "not nice". So I said sorry. Obviously, I
> hadn't realised the email from
> George was a private one. I had also explained that
> I liked what little I'd
> read by Pseudo-Dionysius (in particular, his
> _Mystica Theologia_), so, perhaps
> I should have said, "ALAS, who has "thoroughly
> debunked" Panofsky's
> assertion?"? So yes, I was expressing dismay and
> disappointment.
> Once again, sorry.
> Cheers
> Duc Thi DeBurg Dau
>
> Quoting Marjorie Greene <[log in to unmask]>:
>
> > I'd really appreciate more than a cryptic
> "Bugger."
> > Could you elaborate just a bit more? I assume
> you're
> > expressing dismay or skepticism and I'm truly
> > interested.
> > Thanks,
> > MG
> > --- [log in to unmask] wrote:
> > > Panofsky
> > > > makes much, however, of Suger's reading of the
> > > > Pseudo-Dionysius that has been quite
> thoroughly
> > > debunked by
> > > > more recent authors.
> > >
> > > Bugger
> >
> >
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