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- From: hhenderson@vax.clarku.edu
- Subject: RE: *Any* kind of r.a.b split, or at least a *serious* discussion
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- Date: 23 DEC 92 01:53:54 GMT
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- Michael Wise writes:
-
- >These newbies have been very rude to
- >all concerned. Mark Taranto is a rare breed, a true gentleman, who
- >will often clear his posts with the potential offendees ahead of time.
- >I didn't feel he needed to apologize to Heather (After having her
- >flame me over Gertrude Stein, a pet peeve of mine, I don't care
- >much about Heather's feelings), but he did, and I have a great
- >deal of repect for him doing it. Heather, lacking any sense of
- >decorum or propriety, proceeds to blast him to hell without so much
- >as a 'Humph' at his apology.
- >...
- >I don't understand where these people come off. They enter a room and
- >decide that because they don't like it there, so the rest of us just have
- >to stop whatever we were doing and pick up what they want to do. I know
- >what to do with guests like that. Throw them out.
-
- Excuse me, Michael, but ever since you posted your puerile and ignorant flame
- of Gertrude Stein, I have had a low opinion of your intelligence, and an even
- lower opinion of your sense of decorum or propriety. Nothing in this post of
- yours has changed my opinions. If you want to discuss Stein and Hemingway in
- an intelligent way, I'll accommodate you, mainly because it would be fun to
- see you attempt to weasel out of acknowledging Stein's influence on
- Hemingway. But if you want to whine about the behavior of "guests" as though
- rec.arts.books is a private party for you and your friends, you can ram your
- inconsequential remarks up your ass.
-
- Heather
- HHENDERSON@vax.clarku.edu
-