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   >> end print journal, is in deciding which of Jim's poems to leave out.   
   >   
   > Now, that's as adulatory as if the Chimp wrote it himself - and just as   
   > meaningful, I'm afraid. As I've said, and not just to MMP and his team:   
   >   
   > If a poet consistently praised his own and only his own work, that   
   > wouldn't be seen as a comment on the work but on the poet. Do you agree   
   > so far?   
   > If instead two poets considtently praised each other's, and only each   
   > other's, work, I wouldn't see that as any different.   
   >   
   >>> Actually, it's the readers who will make that decision, George.   
   >>   
   >> GD: Well, we can ask the readers who won this round: Michael's   
   >> adversary,   
   >> whose poem was edited by an illiterate; or Michael's ally, the   
   >> illiterate who did the editing.   
   >>   
   >> MMP: I think it abundantly clear that Mr. Rochester is the winner, since   
   >> his "edit" of your poem has weighed so heavily on your consciousness   
   >> that you felt compelled to address it a second time... nearly two years   
   >> after the fact.   
   >   
   > That should be "clear" to anyone. Rereading the thread and thinking of   
   > new things to say would be enough to explain why I'd comment again.   
   > There's no no reason to think that I'd thought of Mr. Chimp's edit in   
   > the intervening time, and I certainly can't say that I have. For   
   > another, I did not address his edit in my reply; I tried to keep the   
   > focus consistently on MMP's "third man" intervention into the flame war   
   > Mr. Chimp had begun; and the new points I made in that respect were   
   > enough to merit a new reply.   
   >   
   >> OTOH, I doubt Jim has given it a single thought.   
   >   
   > That's possibly true. It's questionable whether Mr. Chimp gives anything   
   > he does much thought.   
      
   Interesting that none of "Harry Lime"'s fellow thugs seem to be able to   
   continue posting on Usenet, but of course people like Nancy Gene and Jim   
   Senetto never really seemed to understand Usenet in the first place.   
      
   And so it goes.   
      
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