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[António Pedro Marques]

David Stockhoff wrote:
> I'm confused. Whose argument?
>
> I don't think Antonio meant to say anything negative about Wright as a
> person, if in fact he meant Wright's atheism blinded him to certain
> interpretations. It's certainly possible---happens all the time, I'm sure.

Just to clarify things a bit, I only said it would be an uncomfortable or 
inconvenient leap. I can't understand how that got construed as an attack, 
personal or not.

I don't think the evidence points to Wright being *intellectually unable* to 
make such a leap, so the guess (yeah) is that he did shy from it, either 
conscious or unconsciously. I also don't think atheism itself is the issue, 
unless he were bent on seeing Wolfe as an atheist, which again I don't see 
that he does. So I guess (squared) that said 'third' reading is either 
something Wright doesn't find interesting or that he fears may open a few 
cans of interpretative worms somewhere if given enough importance.

(I think at this time and place everyone can read Wolfe both with and 
without Wolfe and/or Wolfe's motivations.)

> On 11/29/2010 3:50 PM, Thomas Bitterman wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 1:14 PM, David Stockhoff
>> <dstockhoff at verizon.net <mailto:dstockhoff at verizon.net>> wrote:
>>
>> Why?
>>
>>
>> On 11/29/2010 11:30 AM, António Pedro Marques wrote:
>>
>>
>> It'd be an uncomfortable/inconvenient leap for him to make.
>>
>>
>> Perhaps the uncomfortable part is the ad hominem nature of this argument.
>>
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