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argh! a detailed response to lebell vaporized....
short version:
first, lebell, my apologies for misspelling your fictional name. nice to see you are so gracious about it too.
i am not going to post anything else to this thread.
your response, lebell, really makes me wonder why i bother to post anything here at all.
two points:
1. i am not surprised to see you reacted with anger and shock at how your words from post 17 were understood. no. 17 is a really repellent post, lebell. your response switches ground, introduces other factors that all seem to turn around you having been personally offended by the reaction to what you wrote.
rather than address the obvious problems you raise yourself in no. 17, you decide to attack me personally on the one hand and introduce a whole series of qualifications to your position that were not present in no. 17 and that it is unreasonable to expect i would have known.
in your post, no. 17, the category of "freudian self-loathing"--which you do not explain, in which the term freudian i assume means nothing---functioned to set up every conclusion i drew from it. sorry if you did not like what you read back lebell, but the problem is in your post, not with me.
maybe you could actually look at no. 17 again.
maybe you could think about how the interpretation of your words could come about. maybe you would want to retract the category of self-loathing.
maybe you would want to think it out.
as for your objections to the points pertaining to history as a field of inquiry, there is much i could say. suffice it to say that most of the terms you use are fine in a wholly superficial kinda way. your rankean moment--a function of your obvious humility--was quaint. touching even. the claim that i am smug and you allow the past to be as it really was is just funny-----you cannot know what you are talking about and make that claim. but maybe this impressive display is good: i am glad you have worked out so much about the practice of history, which i assume you do not engage in.
enough of this.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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