| parrthenon@cs.com 2006-08-02, 10:46 pm |
| IN DENIAL?
<IMO, Larry Parr is in denial. It's something like
when you suffer overwhelming pain, and the body
goes into shock, avoiding reality. But denial affects
only the brain. The reality is that there is a wide
range of opinion regarding the dropping of Evans'
column, a fact which LP has decided to simply ignore.> -- "Help Bot"
Yesterday, Greg Kennedy imagined that "evidently"
means "apparently."
Mr. Kennedy used to excuse his erroro-tropism, in
Tartakower's phrase, by complaining about being
marooned among the cornstalks of Indiana. If, if, if
he had been born elsewhere and had had opportunities
denied him (he often complains about stultifying labor
in a factory, then he coulda done things. Big
things. Been a GM or learned some Latin. The
stratosphere would have been his limit. Instead, he
belly-flopped on the task of finding a spellchecker
that, as he claimed, would finally empower him.
That was the story behind his confusing the
definitions of "evidently" and apparently." That was
yesterday.
Today, he has me in denial, without explaining
what I am denying.
We apparently agree that a blackout on the issue
of firing GM Larry Evans is unlikely. You will see a
couple of letters fer and a couple agin' the firing.
That will be the ploy even though the vast majority
of readers will be outraged when they learn the column
has been terminated.
As for GM Larry Evans being "down," that can
only be the view of the Lilliputian accustomed to
viewing GM Evans -- and most GMs, for that matter -- as
those they are Brobdingnagians. It is the view of Mr.
Kennedy as a self-described, unfulfilled factory worker.
GM Evans will still be writing for newspapers
and, at least for a period, for other chess magazines,
not to mention his position as chess commentator at
the World Chess Network. Of course, he lives an
enviable life in Reno -- a rich life, in many ways.
Mr. Kennedy's hope that GM Evans would take the
big fall is based on his evident envy. He will have
to wait a while longer when GM Evans, as must
we all, takes the final big fall. Such appears to be
Mr. Kennedy's single consolation in life: death as the
great equalizer.
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