> From: Kelley <kwalker2 at gte.net>
>
> At 11:52 AM 3/14/02 -0600, Jeffrey Fisher wrote:
>
>> i agree with a bit of what you say here, but maybe the wankfest is how new
>> yorkers are too cool and tough to worry about such things. maybe she should,
>> indeed, have stayed in the incestuous backwaters of the new york cultural
>> tundra, where people are so much more sensitive about ordinary workers than
>> they are in berkeley.
>>
>> j
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>
> oh, please, flatez moi, i really don't give a rat's ass about the perpetual
> war between the left and right coasts. there's a world out there in the
> middle and both sides seem to think the rest of us are a bunch of inbreds.
>
> kelley
speaking as a (more or less) ohioan currently living in chicago, what i saw in the remark was precisely the perpetual war to which you refer, not some high-minded disdain for the high-falutin' environmental disdain for ordinary workers.
but anyway . . .
-- jeff fisher dilettante--er, that's 'intellectual nomad'
"Esthetics is a courteous and sentimental branch of knowledge that knows more ways out than any pawnshop broker." - Kierkegaard