[lbo-talk] Corrections & Response to DW

[Carrol Cox]

Clearly I should have held up posting my "Response toM.G." for a few days
and then revised it; I seem to have slipped into some unfortunate
rhertorical habits again. Aolso, I've probably not read DW's posts carefully
enough (there again, my eyes tempt me to do a quick judgment on the basis of
reading fragments). Anyone who can make the distinction between content and
authroiral persona is someone to take seriously. 

And now I've spent some time trying to decipher the metaphor in "dissenting
wren," which is complicated a bit by not knowing the gender behind it. But
on the assumption that it is less serious to mistake male for female than
female for male, I'll provisionally assume kDW's gender is female. Now to
the metaphor. "Wren," a small, weak (?), timid creature - but _this_ wren
breaks the mold: It stands up (a bird standing?) and declares No to the
world surrounding it. (There is a passage in PL, I think Book 12, in which
Adam declares that the weak are the strong.) This is a crude beginning, but
it perhaps points adirection and warns us to be more careful than I've been
in construing her posts. 

I'm working of a revised version of "Response to MG." 

Carrol

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