From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Fri Feb 11 2000 - 06:18:32 MST
At 01:57 AM 11/02/00 -0800, Robert wrote:
>On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Jeff Davis wrote:
>
>> Robert and Ralph have got it right--end of story.
>> I realize that such blunt confidence is off-putting to some,
>> and rationally insupportable to others, often outrageously so.
>> Yet I, in turn, consider their analysis feeble, and their vision puny.
>The Extropian
>List *is* perhaps the only place in the world where anyone would
>ever claim that *my* vision is "puny"...
Robert, I believe Jeff was referring to those for whom `such blunt
confidence [that is, precisely Ralph's and yours] is off-putting to some,
and rationally insupportable to others'. Correct me if I'm wrong, Jeff,
since that `in turn' does seem to support Robert's reading.
Damien
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