IMO=3DIn my opinion
FWIW=3DFor what it's worth
BTW=3DBy the way
ps I just read *Shoot the Piano Player* (Goodis novel, basis
for Truffaut
film) and loved it -- I didn't like the Goodis I'd read
before this.
Highly recommended. MDS
On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Sonia Abecassis wrote:
> Hello
> These discussions are very enlightening, from the
perspective of a Fren=
ch hard-boiled fan , I heartily conccur with the opinion
expressed ; howe=
ver , would it be possible to use less acronyms or explicit
them ? what i=
s IMO, BTW, FWIW ?=20
> Thanks a million
> Sonia
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> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : sarah matthews <ejmd@mcmail.com>
> =C0 : rara-avis@icomm.ca
<rara-avis@icomm.ca>
> Date : jeudi 11 juin 1998 10:33
> Objet : RARA-AVIS: dickless realities?
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> >On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, "Lawrence R. (Dick) Tartow,
M.D."
> ><goldensam@sprintmail.com>
carped:
> >
> >> No amount of political correctness or
newspeak or silly-ass revision=
ism
> >> can change certain realities. "Dickless
dicks." indeed!
> >
> >You are welcome to take what reassurance you can
from your 'certain
> >realities,' but rest assured your certainties are
certainly not everyo=
ne
> >else's! FWIW, 'political correctness' is, IMO, a
rather unpleasant te=
rm
> >usually deployed by the right as part of populist
discourse in an
> >attempt to discredit or undermine the left. (The
motives, if not the
> >politics, of) its users are thus viewed with
suspicion and/or contempt.
> >
> >Judging by your reaction, the 'dickless dick' is
clearly a concept you
> >have not previously encountered. Might I suggest
you read more widely=
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> >Perhaps then those 'certain realities' can take
on some kind of a
> >context.
> >
> >BTW, the distinctions between 'literary' and
'sociological' are not as
> >neat as you appear to think. Popular texts,
'literary' or otherwise a=
re
> >part of the terrain upon which ideological
tensions and differences ar=
e
> >explored and resolved.
> >
> >
> >Eddie Duggan
>
>+-----------------------------------------------+
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> >
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