Re: Defining "psycho hose beast" over-reaction (was: re: "Your actions speak louder than your lies")

On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 21:06:01 -0700, Ed <edrhodes@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>On Oct 3, 5:18 pm, Josh Hill <userepl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 23:52:20 -0700, Pies de Arcilla
>>
>> <dearci...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>> >> >> On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 07:17:59 -0700, Ed <edrho...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
>>
>> >> >> I may be wrong, but I don't think even most of Sylvia's followers
(not
>> >> >> that there are more than a handful) consider her posts sane.
Those who
>> >> >> feel affection towards her merely refrain from commenting
directly on
>> >> >> their nuttiness.
>>
>> >I'm not a "follower" of her, but I would say she's not any nuttier
>> >than the average poster to misc.writing.
>>
>> Isn't that a bit like saying that Genghis Khan wasn't any worse than
>> your typical rampaging conqueror?
>>
>> --
>> Josh
>
>I'm reminded of a short-short written by Harlan Ellison in his
>collection "From A to Z in the Chocolate Alphabet." Each story was one
>paragraph in length and dealt with something representing a letter of
>the alphabet. For "K" he wrote;
>
>"K is for Kengis Kahn. HE was a very nice person, history has no
>record of him. There's a lesson in that somewhere."

Excellent.

-- 
Josh

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