My comments here were not meant to lambaste Natasha--but I spoke my mind badly. What I was trying, badly, to make fun
of, was everyone's frequent tendency to be in too much of a hurry when reading. Constructive criticism: possibly Damien
breaking his paragraphs up with blank lines would have helped.
Subtract karma for needless sarcasm,
Mike
"Michael M. Butler" wrote:
>
> Um. Well. I did. Of course, I am learning how to move my lips less when I read, and everything.
> Sometimes I even read things more than once, like.
>
> Sigh.
>
> Damien Broderick wrote:
> >
> > At 02:49 PM 12/27/01 -0500, Natasha wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >> Damien Broderick:
> > >> Science, we suppose, is the disciplined
> > >> quest for absolute, fundamental truth.
> > >> All art, by contrast (to bend Walter Pater's
> > >> famous dictum) aspires to the conditional.
> >
> > >Mighty wide paint brush your using my friend. Watch out for the corners -:)
> >
> > Nobody ever seems to get to the next move in what I wrote:
> >
> > < Such divisions into contrasted categories swiftly fall apart, however. >
> >
> > Sigh.
> >
> > Damien Broderick
>
> --
>
> MMB is reachable via butler at comp dash lib dot o r g
> * My moronic mnemonic for smart behavior: "DICKS" == *
> * diplomacy, integrity, courage, kindness, skepticism. *
--MMB is reachable via butler at comp dash lib dot o r g * My moronic mnemonic for smart behavior: "DICKS" == * * diplomacy, integrity, courage, kindness, skepticism. *
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