Grammatical Leftist (was Re: Postmodern Cover for Gitlin's 'Yes')

kelley oudies at flash.net
Sat Oct 16 17:28:01 PDT 1999


a bit a ago the bilious byfield, t, who otherwise has a from name "ted byfield" said in response to yoshie's discoursing:


> heh.

oh ted! your prescience isn't as powerful as i once thought. i think you should have put that as "heh. [square root of minus 1]"

because of course yoshie you maintain that:


>
>Another reason why t's 'irony' doesn't work is that, in its resolute
>disregard of the referent (the deaths & expulsions of the Serbs and Roma,
>the threatened lynchings of the anti-KLA Albanians, etc.) of the story (in
>favor of paying attention to how the story is told and that only), it fails
>to be equal to the reality to which the Guardian article stood as one
>response (among many others).

and, of course, blatantly disregard this:


>at the moment, i don't think there's a lot to be gained
>from striking valorous postures and rhetorically jousting with the
>rump KLA. there are other things to be done, and i've been doing
>them for several months.

heh heh heh square root of minus one



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