> At 08:52 PM 12/13/2011, Michael Smith wrote:
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> >I couldn't make head or tail of it either. For what that's worth.
>
> It's that difficult? Serious question.
I honestly don't know. "Difficult" wasn't my response -- I couldn't understand what he was driving at, at all. It just didn't compute. Words went in, no meaning came out.
> I can't make head nor tail of a lot of things, but I think it's bad
> form to dismiss a major thinker like Adorno without first trying to
> get it, at least a little.
I don't recall making any sweeping assertions about Adorno, who is terra omnino incognita to me. My comment was about the passage quoted. But perhaps I have the wrong background for it, or my mind works in a different way, or something. People do seem to have different cognitive styles, for lack of a better word.
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