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- From: jzimm@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Joann Zimmerman)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
- Subject: Re: Making notations in your books?
- Message-ID: <85763@ut-emx.uucp>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 18:04:34 GMT
- References: <9212181601.AA04042@cfdev1.shearson.com>
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- In article <1992Dec20.091759.27869@netcom.com> Tom Maddox,
- tmaddox@netcom.com writes:
- (Paul Callahan says:)
- >>Nevertheless, all of these people I criticize are quite intelligent,
- and if
- >>they would stop acting so *goddamn* smug, and stop to think about what
- is
- >>of *general* interest, and what is *not*, then the quality of this
- group would
- >>be improved enormously.
-
- There *is* no general interest. There are only particular interests. The
- readership being about 70,000 the last time I looked, it seems unlikely
- that we could ever agree on what our general interests might be; we
- certainly could not do so within a reasonable amount of time. I've been
- reading a thread where there seems to be more than a bit of disagreement
- over whether there should be quotations and wordplay in books; what we
- are seeing here, Mr. Callahan, is the same argument as applied to
- newsgroups. If we worried about what was of general interest, we would
- never post anything at all. Of course, this may be what you actually want?
-
- >
- > Indeed. If you were to be put in charge, no doubt the trains
- >in r.a.b. would run on time.
- >
-
- Trains? We don't need no stinkin' trains ...
- "Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion
- borders on the chaos of memories"
- -- Walter Benjamin
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