Advertising diatribe

[MJTurano@aol.com]

In a message dated 5/17/99 10:39:38 AM, akilgour@thinkage.on.ca writes:

<<Okay.  Two things.  Mea culpa for forgetting who it was who said which.

Other, which I won't apologise for...one of the things I learned in the
course of years of discussion and debate was that you can paraphrase...I
wasn't quoting.  I know that.  However, writing down the diatribe over again
didn't thrill me.  I've read it, everyone else on the list has read it ( who
might care about this discussion).

And as for feeling threatened or defensive...<shrug>  I put in my two cents
on the matter.  Ultimatatly, Holly, much as I admire you as a writer, and I
enjoy some of your thoughts on matters of L,TU,&E, your opinion (or not) of
me doesn't mean jack shit and we both know that...so why would I be
defensive?  Until you and I know one another as actual people, this is an
interesting mental exercise...>>

Someone might interpret you as being defensive because 95% of what you write 
here comes off as either defensive or confrontational.  And if someone openly 
disagrees with you, as in the Kosovo debate, you stop your foot in anger and 
refuse to discuss the matter.  (In fact, the question "why would I be 
defensive?" is, by its very nature, defensive.) 

And *my* impression was that Holly wrote the diatribe over again for purposes 
of clarity and precision, so that there could be no misunderstanding about 
what she was talking about.  But hey, I could be wrong...

-Matt