Dear List,
Has anyone counted the number of abstract nouns in David
Bircumshaw's posting of 13 Dec? Should we count twice for
abstract nouns with really potent I-am-pure/you-are-muck
connotations?
There is a curious side-light on this in the way the North-
East (home of Labour?) treats its critics. There, the
dissident is usually characterised as a socialist or
communist. Hence: I once selled a local history booklet to
a smart-looking gent, who came back some minutes later, bought
a second copy and enquired if the author was a communist? I
thought a little about myself, and suggested that what he
could recognise was a tinge of the anarcho-syndicalist. Paah -
sez he - a bunch of communists then!
My point being that abstract words have little definition other
than the wish to promote one's own virtue or molest others.
Indeed, given his association with Andrew Duncan, and his own fine
skill in using 'Angel Exhuast' to satirise and vilify, I could not
imagine anyone better qualified than David Bircumshaw to run
a witchhunt.
Under the guise of a very moderate affair, of course.
bill
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