From: damiel@netcom.com (Paul Theodoropoulos)
Subject: Re: Coppola's DRACULA
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Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 10:16:41 GMT

In <1993Jan12.043656.6028@Princeton.EDU> egnilges@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Edward G. Nilges) writes:
>In article <1993Jan12.002401.8426@netcom.com> damiel@netcom.com (Paul Theodoropoulos) writes:
>>"SEE the amazing simple declaratory sentences!!"

>...which were highly offensive to me, unless there is a Great Law:

so i succeeded to offend you. my work is nearly done.

>>"READ the extraordinarily simple statements of OPINION!!"

>     ...unjustified by facts, references to authority, or argumentation
>     of any sort...

and i suppose that "expresses a lot of repressed hostility and aggression 
and indeed is a Dracula-like desire to infect a woman with your bodily fluids"
was grounded in your many years of personal experience with the person to whom
you were referring? or could it have been a disgusting projection of your
own mental imbalance? and could that immediately preceding query be quite 
the same in its presumption as your statement was? i believe so.

>>"SEARCH to your HEARTS content for 'name calling' - and walk away DUMBFOUNDED

>     What's"pseudo-intellectual?"  Is this country now a Latin American
>     banana republic, in which even without the modifier,
>     "Intellectuals" shall be targets of opportunity, whether in last
>     Sunday's New York Times Book Review, or in Paul Johnson's hack
>     work, whose very designator shall be produced with a colonel's
>     brutal sneer?

if there were even a fraction of honest intellectual inquiry in what you 
write, rather than mere catalogs of "politically correct" presumptions and 
agenda based upon convenient historical revisionism, i might consider you
other than a pseudo-intellectual.

if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and farts like a duck....

>     Unfortunately, much of politics IS expression, and at any roads,
>     you have know way of knowing how the expression links up with
>     action.  Or would you prefer that I did not speak, but acted
>     instead?  Ah, but then I'd be a "terrorist", wouldn't I, to be
>     placed on display (like a fucking animal) as was that erstwhile
>     intellectual Guzman of Sendero Luminoso.

as action is ordinarily anathema to those of your ilk, you will at least 
never be afflicted by cognitive dissonance. i'm sure its quite comfortable 
to absolve yourself from any real action by leaping to the histrionics above.

if you will trouble yourself to *think* for a moment, i have not expressed
anywhere any intent or interest in keeping you from expressing yourself - 
nay, i could not physically do so. but if you are going to express yourself, 
you must be prepared for criticism. and criticize i will - as is my right and
obligation. 

i freely admit my parti pris. do you deny yours?

>     Coppola's a Fascist, and a no-talent when compared to Attenborough.
>     You gotta problem with that?

hey, i worked for the man. he's a lunatic, not a fascist! and until
Attenborough learns how to create excellent Rubicon wine and heavenly 
brick-oven pizza, *he's* the no-talent here (insert trite ascii smiley as
necessary). frankly, i don't care how many bad films coppola makes. his 
good ones outclass attenborough's best by a country mile. and i 
enthusiastically admit that coppola hasn't made a good movie in twelve years
at least.

duh, gotta problem wit dat?

>    Amusing: since I had no hand in the design of Princeton's news
>    server.  And are "real" intellectuals computer nerds, and is
>    this electronic burp a sign of deficiency?  The deficiency lies
>    in your exagerrating its importance.

a poor craftsman blames his tools. heh!(tm)

but - tsk tsk mon petit enfant - why trouble yourself over a mere high
school educated clod such as me? i'm sure it would be far more comfortable
to engage only those who *agree* with you!!

go ahead: insulate yourself.

-- 
paul theodoropoulos     damiel@netcom.com     (hooools@well.sf.ca.us)

"Those who will trade essential liberty for promise of security will have
 neither" - Benjamin Franklin
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