--- Lance Murdoch <lancemurdoch at gmail.com> wrote:
Your post here has three
> sentences and the middle
> one had 112 words -
Actually it IS possible to figure out this stuff means given endurance. Let's take the relevant sentence:
> > John, when someone on the Left (or Right, for
> that matter, though a
> > Texas ex-Trotskyist on the Right tells me that
> Rightist intellectuals
> > are far less vicious to wax Coxian, I keep on
> telling this fellow he
> > is mistaken) gets their left cred, continually
> challenged, they get
> > defensive and are prone to obsessively re-relate
> their left history,
> > "I was arrested over El Salvador, burned a US flag
> once, has photos
> > he took of a hippie waving a NLF flag from the
> steps of the US Capitol
> > in '71 at one of the huge MOBE's against the war,
> was radicalized by
> > the photos of My Lai in Life mag. in 70, yada,
> yada."
Now, rewritten, reordered and divided into several sentences, it actually does make sense!:
"John, when someone on the Left has his political credentials continually challenged, he becomes defensive and prone to obsessively relate his left history anew. “I was arrested over El Salvador; burned a US flag once; have photos of a hippie waving an NLF flag from the US Capitol Building in ’71 at one of those huge MOBEs against the war; was radicalized by the photos of My Lai in Life Magazine in ’70; and so forth.” This is also true for the Right -- though a right-wing Texan ex-Trotskyist tells me that me that intellectuals of his political stripe are far less vicious, if I may wax Coxian*, I continue to inform him that he is mistaken.
*I wasn’t sure what grammatical function “to wax Coxian” was performing, so I made an educated guess that Michael is the one waxing Coxian and not the vicious intellectuals.
Michael, why don't you this yourself?
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