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From: crm@duke.UUCP (Charlie Martin)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Gene Wolfe flames and reviews
Message-ID: <6892@duke.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 9-Feb-86 23:02:58 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb  9 23:02:58 1986
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In article <1603@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> benn@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (T Cox) writes:
>And then, then you fall flat on your collective faces when someone uses
>strong rhetoric.  This is too much.

Grrrh!  The "strong retoric" isn't really the problem: the problem is
the amazing, utter, complete and total lack of respect for the
intellectual capacities of people who don't like Gene Wolfe, and the use
of the time-worn, tried and true, ad hominem abusive fallacy.  (If you
don't know what it is, for Ghod's sake look it up -- we're supposed to
be at least partailly educated people here.)

>	Now we're going to have a little test here.  I am going to
>write something that will be an exaggeration.  I will do it for
>dramatic effect.  Ready?  Take your time.  Don't get excited; it's
>only exaggeration.  It's just a rhetorical device.  Now brace yourselves.
>
>	Not one of you is worthy of posting to sf-lovers, you
>	narrow-minded, gullible GITS!  How literal-minded and
>	dense
    ... et cetera ...
>
And you, sirrah, are the diseased result of five hundred years of
inbreeding followed by a supposed education in a hovel of higher
learning.  In addition, I suspect it is true: you do have carnal
intercourse with elder female relatives whose congress is not permitted
you by either custom or law.

Oh, not fair, you say?  We shouldn't be personal, you say?  And what
does your mother have to do with it anyway?  Why, don't get excited;
it's only exaggeration.  It's just a rhetorical device.

And what's a Git?


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			Charlie Martin
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