| Chess One 2005-04-29, 8:34 pm |
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"Taylor Kingston" <tkingston@chittenden.com> wrote in message
news:1114740982.097387.287070@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
quote:
> Indeed I did, Larry. Standing up for the truth is good.
> Now, it's after 10 PM here in Vermont. What time is it there in
> Malaysia? Hadn't you better get some sleep?
This reminds me of a Yogi Berea joke:-
Questioner: What's the time?
Berea: You mean, right now?
I hesitate to derail this Debate of the Century, but rehashing who seemed to
have said what seems entirely beside the point, that of all the original
correspondents, they might all be wrong. Conversely, everyone may have spoke
true from their own perspective, and these perspectives may or may not
overlap or accord with each other, but a battle results in obtaining a
status of having /the/ perspective.
But we have now traveled so far from any autochthonous basis it starts to
resemble a bar-fight caused by a discussion of the Sistine Chapel. The
debate looks like one of those 30-year efforts conducted by warring
academics for sparse funding of no doubt fascinating but trivial esoterica.
This style of investigating a subject reveals no more that who said what,
rather than if the original writer ever said anything of worth in the first
place!
This is the Winterism of my Discontent ;(
Phil Innes
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