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"Ed Huntress" wrote:


Ha! Of course, we're not really being fair, but this is such a strange and
arcane field that it's easy to take pot-shots at it.

In any case, it's not one for this NG. There is OT, and there is
Off-The-Planet. This one is OTP.

Yes, I guess so!

Just a couple of comments and I suppose I'd best get back to the right
planet.


If you happen to be into it, though, sometime when you're Googling, go to
Google Book Search and type in "Ed Huntress," in quotes. There you'll see a
note from the author of _Koolaids: The Art of War_, in which he's a bit
over-gracious in crediting me with "teaching him what good writing is." g
In fact, what I tried to do was to steer him away from bad post-modernism
and towards some very good post-modernism. So then he wrote a wildly
post-modernist book, which Amy Tan, among others, thought was brilliant but
which I can hardly follow. d8-)

Oh, well.

Thanks for the reference!

Oy! I think I actually understood a bit of the excerpts. Guess I'm going
to have to either buy or borrow a copy of this one.

Fella seems to be the post-modernist of post-modernists! The excerpts of
his writing portray post-modernist angst in an unusually easily read and
airy style. It'll be fun to see if the first impression is accurate.

sigh the natural result of spending way too much time in Art History
with a prof who loved having his students try to identify artists' world
views from their art.

Permanent brain warpage.

I think i'll go back to learning how to operate my mini mill: That
produces a Zen-like absorption that's actually rather pleasant.

Hmmmmm- Zen and the Art of Learning Machining at a Very Late Date?