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From: "Byron Nilsson" <byron@banilsson.com>
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> I rarely, rarely post to this usually enjoyable and informative list, but
> impatience compels me to stick my neck out just long enough to observe
that
> Dmitri's so-called tyranny is more generally known as "opinion."
>
> That's it. Opinion. Pleasure and rage are but two of the many acceptable
> reactions to a person's opinion. I work as a critic; I experience a gamut
> of reactions, but the most annoying are those formed as if in response to
> some dictatorial edict. That's not what I deliver. But I don't preface
each
> review with a disclaimer noting that it's my opinion -- the reader is
> assumed to be hip to that fact.
>
> I recommend such hipness to any disgruntled contributors. It will
eliminate
> any illusion of tyranny.
>
> At 01:58 PM 20-07-03 -0700, you wrote:
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Nat Selleck" <selleck@OPERAMAIL.COM>
> > >
> > > Could you please post this to the list?
> > >
> > > Dmitri's tyranny over this list must end. Need we endure his bullying
> > > and ad hominem attacks simply out of deference to his bloodline?
> > > This goes beyond taking offense at his vulgar language. His tantrums
> > > have led, directly or indirectly, to the abrupt cessation of at least
two
> > > interesting lines of scholarly exchange over communism and Charlie
> > > Chaplin, Nabokov and homosexuality. If you think that this is
> > > acceptable in these cases, how about the slippery slope leading to
> > > the ad hominem slamming of the contents of a simple bibliographic
> > > posting?
> > >
> > > Nat Selleck
>
>
>
From: "Byron Nilsson" <byron@banilsson.com>
>
> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (34
lines) ------------------
> I rarely, rarely post to this usually enjoyable and informative list, but
> impatience compels me to stick my neck out just long enough to observe
that
> Dmitri's so-called tyranny is more generally known as "opinion."
>
> That's it. Opinion. Pleasure and rage are but two of the many acceptable
> reactions to a person's opinion. I work as a critic; I experience a gamut
> of reactions, but the most annoying are those formed as if in response to
> some dictatorial edict. That's not what I deliver. But I don't preface
each
> review with a disclaimer noting that it's my opinion -- the reader is
> assumed to be hip to that fact.
>
> I recommend such hipness to any disgruntled contributors. It will
eliminate
> any illusion of tyranny.
>
> At 01:58 PM 20-07-03 -0700, you wrote:
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Nat Selleck" <selleck@OPERAMAIL.COM>
> > >
> > > Could you please post this to the list?
> > >
> > > Dmitri's tyranny over this list must end. Need we endure his bullying
> > > and ad hominem attacks simply out of deference to his bloodline?
> > > This goes beyond taking offense at his vulgar language. His tantrums
> > > have led, directly or indirectly, to the abrupt cessation of at least
two
> > > interesting lines of scholarly exchange over communism and Charlie
> > > Chaplin, Nabokov and homosexuality. If you think that this is
> > > acceptable in these cases, how about the slippery slope leading to
> > > the ad hominem slamming of the contents of a simple bibliographic
> > > posting?
> > >
> > > Nat Selleck
>
>
>