Like a good Neighbor

Lee Berman · 22 Nov 2011, 13:31 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: severiansola at hotmail.com (Lee Berman)
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 08:31:28 -0500
Subject: (urth) Like a good Neighbor
Message-ID: <SNT123-W5346271228715837A697DDCFC80 at phx.gbl>

>Antonio Pedro Marques: Marc, you have to calm down a bit. Gerry's grocery 
>list remark was NOT leveled/directed/whatever at you. He has taken the time 
>to say more than once that your ideas (yours, specifically, Marc's), no matter 
>how outrageous they may seem to most here, are NOT random but methodical. I have 
>said as much. Perhaps you're looking too hard for contrariness.

Antonio, Marc has devoted years of thought, research and writing to his theory. Is
he really not supposed to be offended when someone acknowledges his years of thought
and method but tells him his efforts have not only been a complete waste of time but
also have produced ridiculous, mentally deranged solutions. Here is Gerry's statement:

>"If Wolfe gave you a shopping list that said bacon and potatoes and cabbage, you?d ponder 
>it for half a day and return from the shops with a bar of soap, a cat, and a left-handed 
>can-opener!"

Have you never spent years working on a project? Are you saying you would not take any
offense if someone evaluated your years of work in such a fashion? Marc is not manufacturing
"contrariness". It is right there, on clear display. Marc is being told his years of effort
to understand Wolfe were a waste of his time and a waste of space on this board.

FWIW, I have the opposite view from Gerry's, in every way. (except that we are both atheists ;- ))

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