Wind god

António Pedro Marques · 05 Nov 2010, 18:11 · from 2010-November.txt.gz

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Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 18:11:13 +0000
Subject: (urth) Wind god
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Jeff Wilson wrote (05-11-2010 17:32):
>
>>
>>> Jeff Wilson- Lee, this an example of the kind of selective reading
>>> that pisses off people. In the second sentence following Typhon
>>> calling the Conciliator a wonder-worker, he gives a perfectly
>>> straightforward reason for calling him that: "[...]and since diseases
>>> and deformities seemed to flee from him, I ordered him brought to
>>> me." The disappearances mentioned my Dorcas would seem to indicate
>>> that his departure into the Corridors was further attested by the
>>> soldiers who witnessed it after he left Typhon's presence.
>>
>> I don't know if you can speak for "people" but if I've pissed you off,
>> I apologize, though I'm not sure why what I wrote upsets you. Or did
>> you mean you were pissed off at Andrew, whose idea I was going along
>> with?
>
> I won't unilaterally re-involve people by naming names, but if you truly
>  don't recall the considerable irritation other listpeople have displayed
>  at your methods of justifying previous "GUT" notions of yours, that
> would explain a great deal.

Given that Lee customarily says something to the effect of 'sorry if I'm
unintentionally doing that (bending/falsifying the evidence)' and then does
it again at the next opportunity, I'm inclined to think it's a memory
problem. Otherwise his professing unintentionality would be dishonest, which
I find hard to believe.

(Unintentional errors are quite possible given the source material, but not 
to the point of obstinating, and as time goes by one should become more alert.)

> Unfortunately, it would also be a pathological symptom, like the hypoxia
> from my sleep apnea that makes me just dumber than dirt on some days, and
> never as sharp as I could be or even was 2-3 years ago.

Is there nothing that can be done about it?

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