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rhisiart at earthlink.net rhisiart at earthlink.net
Fri Mar 22 19:48:25 PST 2002


At 05:25 PM 3/22/2002 -0600, you wrote:


>Doug Henwood wrote:
> >
> > rhisiart at earthlink.net wrote:
> >
> >
> > Maybe because he's a contributing editor, a frequent contributor,
> > hosts their radio show, and is quite liked by most of the staff? Even
> > if he doesn't pass your purity test.
> >
> >
>
>Purity test? It's not his politics. It's his banal vulgarity. He reminds
>me of that fellow, I forget his name, who wrote the Caine Mutiny.

Herman Wouk, carrol. and Wouk was much less banal than coop. ;-)

R


>Just
>plain bad vulgar prose. And you claim to be a formalist and an aesthete.
>It is on aesthetic grounds that one ought to tell Cooper to find a
>useful task to do someplace. Perhaps he could teach junior high
>arithemetic without embarassing his friends.
>
>Carrol



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