snitsnat wrote:
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> As I said at the outset: what use is this essay? Of what practical,
> political use is it?
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It establishes the parallel between the bad 19th century poem with the lines "I want to live by the side of the road / And be a friend to man" and my variation of it after being on this list for a couple of years, "I want to live in a house on the side of the road / And sneer at the fools going by.
Someone is sure to moan, "But it ISN'T either/or . . . ."
Carrol