From: word_chemist@hotmail.com   
      
   "Martha Bridegam"  wrote in message   
   news:HtGOf.44829$H71.6457@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com...   
   > ROBBIE wrote:   
   > > "Martha Bridegam"  wrote in message   
   > > news:oDtOf.65834$PL5.52064@newssvr11.news.prodigy.com...   
   > >> ROBBIE wrote:   
   > >>> "Martha Bridegam"  wrote in message   
   > >>> news:GnmOf.65744$PL5.63418@newssvr11.news.prodigy.com...   
   > >>>> selene1022 wrote:   
   > >>>>> "elegant evasions from a comfortable position"   
   > >>>>>   
   > >>>>> BRILLIANT.   
   > >>>> Goes for us all -- anyone who spends time chattering   
   > >>>> morbidly in a salon while real death goes on outside.   
   > >>> Ah - back to 'authenticity'. I'm a fucking sight closer to this lunacy   
   > > than   
   > >>> you are!   
   > >> Snipped the Baudelaire, I see.   
   > >>   
   > >>> And our 'evasion' is that we're specific?   
   > >>>   
   > >>> ROBBIE   
   > >>>   
   > >>>   
   > >> Actually, yes. You're avoiding the implications of the   
   > >> general principle.   
   > >   
   > > So if we were going on about nazis in 1938 we'd be 'avoiding the   
   > > implications'?   
   > >   
   > > ROBBIE   
   > >   
   > >   
   >   
   > If the general principle is that it's imperative not to   
   > allow oneself to resemble the evil one is fighting, even in   
   > comparatively tiny ways, yes.   
      
   But again, you're either making a point we all know (and avoiding saying   
   what needs to be said by a lefty of all people), or insinuating we're as mad   
   and dumb as Bin Laden.   
      
   ROBBIE   
      
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