[lbo-talk] gore vidal is an old, cranky prick

Eric Beck ersatzdog at gmail.com
Sun Nov 1 22:00:48 PST 2009


On 10/30/09, Dennis Claxton <ddclaxton at earthlink.net> wrote:
> At 11:55 AM 10/30/2009, Carrol Cox wrote:


>>You can't gossip without inventing a whole slew of social forces &
>>categories to stick your people in. You are using Gore to illustrate
>>various ensembles of social relations.


> It's not as if you're saying something people here haven't heard or
> thought about before.

The things do seem to be a commonplace, maybe even trite, and I feel a little silly insisting on them. But then I read James's and Ted's contributions to these threads and see them acting as if they were unaware of them.



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