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- From: callahan@biffvm.cs.jhu.edu (Paul Callahan)
- Newsgroups: alt.angst
- Subject: Re: Why I'm such a shit
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.235244.26862@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 23:52:44 GMT
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- llama@tramp.cc.utexas.edu (sine nomine) writes:
-
- >it seems to me that what duke wants to recreate/create here is a
- >coffeehouse atmosphere, where we all sit around clutching well-thumbed
- >copies of Important Books and feeding each other our pet concepts. you
- >know, the sorts of conversations where you say one of my trigger words
- >and i blurt out my set piece on the subject, and that in turn triggers
- >you to say something... it's like picking tracks on a cd with a remote
- >control, intellectual dicksizewars that don't have any relation to
- >life. there i'd have to agree with you: what's the fucking point?
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- No need to create it here. It already exists on rec.arts.books.
-
- --
- "I would rather be torn to pieces by the poison-clawed cat, than to suffer one
- instant of acceptance by the resident intellectuals of rec.arts.books."
- [slightly modified; attribution left as an exercise to the reader]
- -- Paul Callahan, callahan@biffvm.cs.jhu.edu --
-