Does Bad Writing Hurt the Left? was Re: [lbo-talk] The curse of literacy

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Sat Jul 17 08:53:01 PDT 2004


Carl Remick wrote:
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> "Jesus merely raised one hand a few inches and a yawning chasm opened in the
> earth, stretching far and wide enough to swallow all of them. They tumbled
> in, howling and screeching, but their wailing was soon quashed and all was
> silent when the earth closed itself again."

If flat dull writing hurts a political position, obviously there are no fundamentalist xtians in the u.s. anymore.

Or could it be that flip remarks as to "No wonder the left is so week" are as ignorant as they are banal?

Carrol



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