Date: Sat, 23 May 1998 12:47:31 -0400
From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood-AT-panix.com>
Subject: Re: M-G: On the close down of Marxism space


Louis Proyect wrote:

>By the way, something I've never understood about you, Malecki. How do you
>decide which words or grammatical symbols to intentionally misuse. For
>example, when you decided to use a comma instead of an apostrophe for a
>year or two and then, without fanfare, begin using them the correct way,
>how did you make this decision?

On the crucial question of Malecki-style, I've always wondered myself about
the exclamation point. Why, for example, "Dave writes!"? Why, even,
"Cockroach!"? A few years ago, the town of Hamilton, Ohio, tried to change
its name to Hamilton! as an act of civic boosterism. Is Malecki really a
mid-American Chamber of Commerce guy on some weird psycho-marxism jag?

Also, if Malecki refers to himself in the third person, should his
interlocutors use that form too rather than the second person?

Doug





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