Re: Dweomer,etc.

On 2007-07-12 11:50:55 -0400, Larry Swain <theswain@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> said:

> Tom Hook wrote:
>> On 2007-07-11 09:07:32 -0400, Larry Swain <theswain@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
said:
>> 
>>> Tom Hook wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 2007-07-10 17:37:38 -0400, Dan Clore <clore@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
said:
>>>> 
>>>>> Larry Swain wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I doubt that anything else is worth bothering with at this point.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Indeed, you're a waste of time.  Not only can you not write
clearly, 
>>>>>> you haven't the basic literacy skills, and when you're failure is 
>>>>>> pointed out to you, you imply that your respondant is a liar. 
Truly, 
>>>>>> you are not worth bothering with any further.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Something about the above impresses me.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> This argument is entertaining up to a point for any of us who know 
>>>> better than to take it seriously. That said, my vote goes to Clore 
>>>> because Swain is nothing more than a pretentious jackass who seems to

>>>> think that what he says is something more than empty academic
yammering.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Ah yes, that's using the ol' intellect to make judgements....good 
>>> choice, Clore is the anti-intellectual fool's choice, so if you fit 
>>> that group, choose Clore.  Thanks Tom for putting up the standard for 
>>> your special team.
>> 
>> 
>> Larry
>> 
>> When faced with a towering intellect such as your own,
> 
> What towering intellect?  I never made such claims.  I dispensed 
> information and I made an argument based on the information Dan 
> originally supplied.  An easy way to have avoided all the subsequent 
> unpleasantness was for Dan OR ANY OTHER READER SUCH AS YOURSELF, Tom, 
> to merely point to Dan's supposed corrective post which my explicit 
> statements over many posts made crystal clear I hadn't seen, including 
> the fact that I never responded to this supposed post that I still 
> haven't seen show up in my newsreader.  But neither you nor Dan was 
> quite up to doing that.
> 
> 
>   I am left little
>> choice but to fall back on my feelings to make judgements
> 
> And therein lies the problem.  Next you'll tell us you beat your wife 
> because you fell back on your feelings.  Feelings change, who knows, 
> next time you might even like me.
> 
>   and hope that
>> my gut does not prove me wrong. Whenever you make a post (I first 
>> noticed this a few months ago), there is an aggressive rancor that 
>> eventually seeps out from every ****e of your body of "work" and I 
>> "feel" it first and foremost before anything else comes into play.
> 
> Poppycock.
> 
> 
> I don't know
>> what bug has crawled up your ass but I suggest you take a more careful 
>> look next time you're up there.
> 
> Huh, it looks suspiciously like you.
> 
>   Maybe a little self-reflection can get
>> rid of the infestation and you can then begin to play nice. It's what 
>> we anti-intellectuals call an attitude adjustment.
> 
> Such big words for a fool.  I suspect rather that your problem with me 
> is simply that my towering intellect makes you feel small and so you 
> react with those feelings you're on about as the arbiters of your 
> personal truth.
> 
> So hey Tom, let's play a game here.  Look back at my original posts, 
> please point out where you find this aggressive rancor.  Dan in fact 
> even thanked me for those posts, hardly an indication that he at least 
> found them to be rancorous.  I submit that there was no rancor until 
> Dan introduced it on 7/5 with his post essentially accusing me of 
> hiding information about a book I read somewhere over 25 years ago and 
> had long forgotten about.

Larry

Thanks for your reply. I agree with you on one point, I have a bug up 
my ass about some things so from one asshole to another, it seems it's 
true, it takes one to know one.

As for playing your game, that would give me a headache because reading 
those posts once was enough for me. I may suffer from attention deficit 
disorder because I find it hard to concentrate on some matters more 
than once. I think it gives me brain fever.

You are a man who clearly likes to have the last word and aside from 
the fact that these current words of mine follow yours chronologically, 
I think your words constitute a finality I can live with. I've had my 
say and so have you. It's been fun and I don't want the cream to curdle.

You're right about one thing, next time I might like you. In fact, I 
think I am beginning to feel that way right now. Any man who takes the 
time to defend himself with such rigor and tenacity satisfies my 
definition of an entertainer and maybe even an educator.

Cheers

Tom

PS I am thinking about posting something about Sauron in the near 
future, and I hope our little contretemps won't prevent you from 
sharing your views regarding my "feelings" (if not thoughts!) on  the 
matter.