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Subject: Re: Re: Phil Pollis embarressment - (nf)
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Date: Sun, 6-Nov-83 10:34:51 EST
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ucbesvax!turner    Nov  6 06:26:00 1983

    Why should we twist each others words to our own meaning in
    public? . . . If someone says something you disagree with fine, let's
    spit it out - but don't change the meaning of hir words to say what
    you want to attack.
    -- 
    Jeff Offutt . . .

The amazing thing to me about this "embarassment" of Pollis was the
ratio of commentary to original text.  (Of course, I'm no less guilty,
from looking at some of my dissections.)

But was this commentary a "twisting" or an explication of attitudes?
If Pollis is *not* willing to give provide his own explication, he
thoroughly deserves whatever inferences others might make about his
writing.  Just "spitting it out" (as Pollis apparently did), is only
going to lead to *more* confusion, not less.
---
Michael Turner (ucbvax!ucbesvax.turner)