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loquitor--o i know i approach most things from a set of assumptions--but i try to be flexible with them. there are some axiomatic areas i am less flexible about--like the idea that one can separate the economic from other aspects of social reality in any coherent way.
roachboy is much more rigid than i am about this sort of stuff---i position roachboy as a kind of meta-player in these games for the most part. partly i do it because i think that debate is more interesting if played at the meta-level, so it's about approach as much as what approach generates. i've been consistent about that much--even though it generates some static (what game are we playing?) and despite the occasional foray into donnybrooks.
politically, i'm less easy to pin than roachboy is--probably more radical than he is.
sometimes i get sick of roachboy....he's a product of the format we swim around in, and the format is itself kinda restrictive.
that why he's a fiction, you see.
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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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