That said, a word of advice, which you might do well to take to heart. Very few of us are going to take a list of titles, about which you refuse, in the shrillest of tones, to provide any additional information, seriously as a contribution to an exchange of information. If the people with whom you're used to dealing react to such a proposal by setting out to read your suggested tomes, without the slightest idea as to their contents ... well, I can't imagine which people you deal with. Whatever else one might say about Solidarity members, they are into having jobs.
With that, I end my participation in this rather absurd exchange. Those of you with something worthwhile to say about Diamond (which is most of you), please carry on. I'm learning a lot from your conversation, even if I'm not weighing in consistently.
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 1:00 AM, Dissenting Wren <dissentingwren at yahoo.com>wrote:
> Dude...you need to chill with a nice cold glass of milk or something. Do
> you
> remember this?
>
>
>
> > It is an amateurish jumping into a discipline without any attention to
> > the many already existing works in this important area of knowledge.
>
> Such as ... ? I'll admit to a near-complete ignorance of prior attempts to
> tackle the problem Diamond addresses:
>
>
>
> I gave you the benefit of the doubt and provided you with some titles. I
> don't
> even have a dog in the Diamond fight, so I was disinterested. Instead, you
> wanted to be convinced that they were worth reading, and you wanted someone
> else
> to do the work of summary for you. Not long after, you were accusing me of
> trying to lead you on an academic wild goose chase. Shit, read the books,
> don't
> read them, makes me no fucking never mind. But darling, you have no
> lessons to
> learn when it comes to the art of the flounce.
>
>
>
> Dissenting Wren
> "MoS"
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com>
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Sent: Tue, May 10, 2011 3:45:12 PM
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] vaca reading
>
> On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 11:34 PM, Dissenting Wren
> <dissentingwren at yahoo.com>wrote:
>
> OTOH, when someone says here that he doesn't know anything about the
> earlier
> > scholarship that lies behind GGS, solicits titles, then responds to the
> > titles
> > provided with a snark, one may just smell a hint of troll.
> >
>
> If responding to a naked list of titles with a request for information as
> to
> their actual contents is your idea of "snark," I smell more than a hint of
> a
> drama queen. Don't let me stand in your way, though; most lists have at
> least one in residence, and they are, if nothing else, often good for
> collective amusement.
>
> --
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> lytlað."
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