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for what it's worth--even though i was really clear about this in my response to host--i felt a bit caught out by his post--but there is nothing condescending in it--it simply reflected the tension that exists when you are on the one hand thinking about a something as an analytic question and talking to folk who are involved in that same issue at the same time--there is always a danger that you will start treating the people you are speaking to as specimens..it's not about being condescending--it is about the appearance of being condescending that can come about quite against your will simply because you are thinking in two different ways about the same questions.
that ustwo confused appearance for reality does not surprise me, and i have nothing to say either to or about it beyond that.
but his reaction--his interpretation--has no contact whatsoever with either how i think about folk on this board or anywhere else, no contact whatsoever with how i took host's post or the exchange that followed. with the result that i cannot fathom what the motive might have been behind his posts.
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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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