Wolfe's brilliance or my denseness?

Jerry Friedman · 24 May 2011, 21:05 · from 2011-May.txt.gz

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From: jerry_friedman at yahoo.com (Jerry Friedman)
Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 14:05:50 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: (urth) Wolfe's brilliance or my denseness?
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> From: Ant?nio Marques <entonio at gmail.com>

> 
> James Wynn wrote:
> > (...) a "bible thumper", as Antonio calls people who  are familiar
> > with the Bible (...)
> 
> Whooooa. I didn't use any such  expression. I demand a  clarification.

Somebody else used it.  Likewise Lee Berman wrote "Jerry's problem with random 
excerpting" when he meant "Jeff's"--though of course I have that problem with GB 
and Amazon too.  And Nathan wrote "A question arising from Jerry's post" when he 
probably meant Jason H's post.  I suppose I don't notice unless I'm the person 
named.

Jerry Friedman

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