Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 20:20:31 -0500 (EST) From: Jon Beasley-Murray <jpb8-AT-acpub.duke.edu> Subject: Re: M-TH: Juan's evasions and misrepresentations Jerry, why can't you simply apologize and leave it be? You get more disingenuous and more dislikeable the more you protest your supposed honesty, sincerity and indignation. a) why the insult anyhow? b) if someone calls me an "English dolt" (say), I take it that the "English" is more than a factual qualifier of a general insult, but is in some sense part of that insult. Equally, if someone calls me a "small-minded graduate student" (say), then I would equally tend to think that the idea of small-mindedness is more than contingently attached to the idea of graduate student in the speaker's utterance. Take care Jon Jon Beasley-Murray Literature Program Duke University jpb8-AT-acpub.duke.edu http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~spoons --- from list marxism-thaxis-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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