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His aims are all well and good, but this book sounds too much like another Ph. D. thesis warmed over for publication.
Why can't these leftist intellectuals learn to write decently? These long, complex sentences, filled with impossible coinages like "resingularization"! How can they ever hope to get a strong political movement going when only their fellow professors (and not many of them, even) can understand what the hey they are saying? And once and for all, let's give up the attempt to make "praxis" an English word. Nobody but graduate students has ever encountered it, or knows what it means.
The woman on the van with him who disgusted him by putting on a clown suit probably was on a better track. At least the people who saw her would be able to figure out what she was doing.
Jon Johanning // jjohanning at igc.org __________________________________ A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, 'You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk-dancing.' -- Sir Arnold Bax