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ace: like i said, your claim---and is YOUR claim, not mine--is circular. i neither know nor care if george w. bush as a human being is or is not a "man of conviction" or whether, if he appears that way when you are hanging out with him, it follows from the inability to consider complexity or from something else. you do not know the guy either. both of us are in the same place, then, in that when we move from the image of george to the actually exsiting guy george, we move from what we know something of (the image) to something we know fuck all about (the guy)....we fill in the blanks based on predispositions. i get around this by not pretending that i know george w bush as a human being--where you seem to feel like you do. that fantasy is your prerogative, and decorum prevents me from being able to say in this forum the extent to which i find that fantasy ridiculous--along with the politics that enable it.
but hey, maybe you thought you knew the characters from "friends" too.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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