[the_old_crowd] Re: lit. crit. and Potter

[Sean Dwyer]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 04:20:37AM -0000, kumayama wrote:
> 
> 
> Hello Sean,
> 
> What Jolly fun, my third public post and I'm held to account with a word I"m not sure really 
> exists--i.e., your line, "snip egregrious top-posting." Seems a "word" of that spelling gets 
> used occasionally, yet I've never really found it in a respected dictionary (say the OED, at 
> least my worn old muti-volume set). 
> 
> So being my inquisitive self, I say, "Self, just what did Sean mean to say about my posting? 
> Ah, why not go to the source and ask." So, taking my self's advice to Self, I shall ask, just 
> what did you intend to convey in finding my "top-posting" egregrious? TIA for any 
> enlightenment you may bestow.  

Adding the entire message you are replying to without specific relationship to
the points you are making wastes my bandwidth. I am also forced to perform
major editing on your email in order to reply. I could have used the phrase
'bloody annoying' but 'egregrious' was more entertaining at least for myself.

> But on to your more expansive comments. Frankly, you illustrate why I found Kneasy's 
> comments refreshing. I shan't go too far into this as I don't have the interest or time,  and 
> Kneasy has already made his own reply in defence (or was it just explanation?). I guess I'm 
> a simpleton at heart, and perhaps a bit of a detective (and thus why I'm a 
> neuropsychologist and not a Jungian analyst). 

But you did 'go far into this'. At length. To satisfy Kneasy's curiosity, I
merely wondered why everyone retreats the moment anyone goes 'metathinking'. I
thought perhaps it disturbed them, hence the word. Judging by the vast
silence, perhaps they're merely asleep. The suggestion that the possibility of
authorial meglomania is sufficient warning that we shouldn't stray from canon
is frankly hilarious and I will close the subject by merely noting that the
art is there for everyone to make anything they like from it. Within
copyright-infringment guidelines of course.

-- 
"You know your god is man-made when he hates all the same people you do."