On May 5, 2009, at 3:59 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote:
> At 03:39 PM 5/5/2009, Doug Henwood wrote:
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>> On May 5, 2009, at 3:30 PM, SA wrote:
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>>> Doug Henwood wrote:
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>>>> I await commentary from Cde Cox on this passage.
>>>
>>> Haven't you heard? It doesn't matter because the truth is the whole.
>>
>> Either that or Nixon was lying.
>
>
> I'm confused as to what this is a reference to? Or is this some
> convo going on at Pen-l?
Here. It started when I posted a quote from the libretto to John Adams' Nixon in China (by Alice Goodman). In it, Mao said he liked rightists. I asked if this was true. Apparently it is. Since Cde Cox loves Mao and hates rightists, well, you can guess the rest.
Doug