(urth) Like a good Neighbor

Gerry Quinn gerry at bindweed.com
Wed Nov 23 07:35:42 PST 2011



From: David Stockhoff 
On 11/22/2011 8:34 AM, Gerry Quinn wrote:
> *From:* Marc Aramini <mailto:marcaramini at yahoo.com>
>
> > > paid by one side to make it quick, the other to make it painful, and 
> by positioning
> > > them just right, he succeeds - thus does Wolfe speak of narrative, 
> > and I see it
> > > on this board, (until time holds my own severed head up for inspection.)

> > A nice metaphor – but I’m not trying to torture you, Marc. I just 
> > don’t think the books support the notion that inhumi are vegetables.

> Once again you twist others' words to make them appear silly. You don't 
> even bother to pretend the level of respect for others that requires you 
> to properly quote their ideas. I'm beginning to think you can't help 
> it---that you just have no idea of the standards of behavior for adult 
> intellectual engagement.
Marc has repeatedly asserted that a staff made from a liana on Blue is an inhumu, and that lianas on Green are also inhumi.  And things that are even less biologically plausible.  I’m twisting nothing, just pointing out that Marc’s theory has aspects that I find difficult to make compatible with the ostensibly reptilian nature of the inhumi.  
- Gerry Quinn
 
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