Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 16:04:20 +1000 From: Gary MacLennan <g.maclennan-AT-qut.edu.au> Subject: Re: BHA: on my " impatience " At 09:37 PM 2/26/99 +0000, you wrote: >Hi Gary. > >You wrote: >>Now to conclude I wish Mervyn had not been rude to you. I have written to >>him to say that. And I am glad that he has subsequently smoothed things >>over. With the exception of the unspeakable Ralph Dumain this has been a >>polite list. We should do all we can to keep it that way. > >I take your point, and as I have said to Howard, mea culpa. My words >were qualified by *it seems to me*, but even so not appropriate in the >circumstances. > >However, I do not accept the status of black sheep after the unspeakable >RD, as though no-one else has sinned. In the interest of peace and >reconciliation I do not name names, but I will say that one particular >kind of bad form I have encountered is, when I criticize a view, being >accused of saying that the proponent of the view is stupid or >insensitive. > >Mervyn Peace Mervyn, (and Ruth too). I would never classify your good self, Mervyn, along side Dumain. Not ever, besides you owe me a beer and I intend to collect. Fellow list members. we are doing very well at the moment. I am poised to get stuck into the diffraction of the dialectic. (lucky me) If my post raises half as much discussion as Colin's did I will be pleased. Repeat:- Everyone should be very well satisfied. We are getting through the book and that is what it is all about. regards Gary > > --- from list bhaskar-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- > > --- from list bhaskar-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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