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In a message dated 03/08/2003 9:30:30 AM Eastern Standard Time,
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>
> This really won't wash. Conversation (even the conversation of the 18th
> c. Paris salons) would be killed by such "expectations." To fulfill
> those expectations _once in a while_ the basic expectations must
> acknowledge that conversation, whether in a room or on a maillist, is
> primarily phatic.
>
> Perhaps the standards for maillists must be looser yet, for maillists
> (a) eliminate background knowledge of the participants (the kind of
> background that allows recognition that the stupidity of a statement
> does not reflect stupdity of the speaker) and (b) kill tone. Note that
> this thread has degenerated into Did Too -- Did Not in reference to the
> tone of a post.
>
> One way to learn through conversation is to make statements without
> thinking them out too fully, and letting the conversation winnow out the
> wheat from the chaff -- but that is only possible if participants don't
> throw a fit about the chaff in the air.
>
> Carrol
>

Given the spirit of the Homeland Security, perhaps we could have a list
director of  Pound Security.  This person would be responsible for vetting
each listee, ascertaining that each participant has a prescribed level of
knowledge, a perquisite IQ,  definitive intimacy with every publication on
Pound, and sufficient wind with which to deliver proofs of one's mastery of
verbosity.  Nominations?

jb...



They hang the man and flog the woman
That steal the goose from off the common,
But let the greater villain loose
That steals the common from the goose.

Constant apprehension of war has the same tendency
to render the head too large for the body.  A standing military
force with an overgrown executive will not long be safe.
companions to liberty.  -- Thomas Jefferson


"America is a quarter of a billion people totally misinformed and disinformed
by their government. This is tragic but our media is -- I wouldn't even say
corrupt -- it's just beyond telling us anything that the government doesn't
want us to know."

Gore Vidal

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