Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 01:43:32 -0500 (EST)
From: TMB <tblan-AT-telerama.lm.com>
Subject: Re: God help us, back to tropes




Agreed. In the main. Rooney is a bright guy, though.

TMB


On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Matthew King wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Jon Rubin wrote:
> 
> > The "if you need to ask what it is, you're never going to know" while 
> > fine for jazz is not so useful for politics.
> 
> In both cases, though, the answer is in the showing, not in the telling.
> Jumping from rock to rock *sounds* stupid, but it feels great.  Arguing
> with Rooney et al. is either an amusement or a mistake.  For every answer,
> they produce a new question.  The skeptical parrhesiast is always on the
> offensive, never satisfied!
> 
> Matthew
> 
>  ---Matthew A. King---Department of Philosophy---York University, Toronto---
>               "Strange as angels / Dancing in the deepest ocean"
>  -------------------------------(The Cure)----------------------------------