Date: Sun, 18 Aug 1996 15:46:13 -0500
From: rahul-AT-peaches.ph.utexas.edu (Rahul Mahajan)
Subject: Re: Rectitude not saccharine Was: Absolute and relative surplus	  value


Zeynep:

>As for Rahul,
>
>What you are doing is just fueling the fire. These two sentences I've qouted
>below as an example are aimed to anger, and get people to respond. Besides
>the attitude problem, you should consider the fact that it will damage your
>reputation for more sophisticated and tasteful subtlety as they are too
>obvious.

I play to my audience.

>>Or taking digs at people who haven't yet
>>realized what a bellum omnium contra omnes this list really is.
>
>>Was it Zeynep and Rakesh who were supposed to be "snickering," or have I
>>missed something? Rakesh definitely doesn't seem to be the type to do that.
>
>(For anyone who doesn't yet know Rahul, let me expose. The first sentence
>will invite a response for the Latin quote, because he got such a response
>for a French phrase in the sexism joke, and the last one is really crude, as
>it is aimed to prompt people into saying that "No, Zeynep won't snicker
>either".)

Nolo.

Rahul




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