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   XPost: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy   
   From: epsteinrob@yahoo.com   
      
   oxtail wrote:   
      
   > halfawake wrote:   
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   >>oxtail wrote:   
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   >>>halfawake wrote:   
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   >>>>oxtail wrote:   
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   >>>>>halfawake wrote:   
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   >>>>>>oxtail wrote:   
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   >>>>>>>halfawake wrote:   
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   >>>>>>>>oxtail wrote:   
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   >>>>>>>>>halfawake wrote:   
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   >>>>>>>>>>full page line length: that is not how it's written, and not how   
   >>>>>>>>>>it appears to me.  it seems that your newsreader is not   
   >>>>>>>>>>registering my formatting and auto-carriage returns.  My lines   
   >>>>>>>>>>are about 67 characters per line by my count.   
   >>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>His newsreader might be set to re-wrap text. Do try to keep your   
   >>>>>>>>>paragraphs short, please.   
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   >>>>>>>>wow, for an unpaid writer I suddenly have an awful lot of editors.   
   >>>>>>>>I have an idea: why don't you try to go fuck yourself?   
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   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>You need to learn to write for others sooner or later.   
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   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>up to a point.   
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   >>>>>Have you tried to read Hegel?   
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   >>>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>>Yes, I read the Phenomenology of Spirit, his greatest work, among   
   >>>>others, many years ago.  Also enjoyed Kojev's unwieldy commentary.  How   
   >>>>about you?   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>I couldn't stand him.   
   >>>Probably due to his sentences   
   >>>that go on for pages.   
   >>>Once I spoke for many minutes   
   >>>without finishing one sentence.   
   >>>I was dead drunk, of course.   
   >>>If you really try to capture   
   >>>the reality in one sentence,   
   >>>you would be talking one sentence   
   >>>for all your life.   
   >>>   
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   >>   
   >>Well no one said Hegel was an easy read.  Maybe you should read him when   
   >>you're drunk?   
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   > I often did.   
   > But the issue is the reasonable length of paragraphs.   
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   There is no limit on paragraphs, only on how long one chooses to read   
   them.  And reasonableness is in the mind of the beholder.  I suppose you   
   would give editorial advice to James Joyce on Finnegan's Wake, and tell   
   him to make himself more understandable.  Well, that approach to writing   
   would be the end of most work of any note.  My paragraphs may be a lot   
   more boring, but they represent my mode of thought at the time.  If I   
   start trying to satisfy your reading capabilities, I may as well go   
   smack myself in the head with a large pot.   
      
   Robert   
      
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