Re: a sentence worth a thousand words
AntiUtopia@aol.com
Sat, 23 Oct 1999 15:34:50 -0400 (EDT)
In a message dated 10/23/99 1:44:51 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
seandr@Exchange.Microsoft.com writes:
<< Matt,
Let me try a less belligerent approach more in keeping with my polite
Midwestern upbringing. I humbly offer you this quote from the first
paragraph of Franny, the relevance of which I hope is obvious.
-Sean
"The rest were standing around in hatless, smoky little groups of twos and
threes and fours inside the heated waiting room, talking in voices that,
almost without exception, sounded collegiately dogmatic, as though each
young man, in his strident, conversational turn, was clearing up, once and
for all, some highly controversial issue, one that the outside,
nonmatriculating world had been bungling, provocatively or not, for
centuries."
>>
Ah, Sean, do you **really** want to know what's going on in those little
groups of twos and threes and fours?
It's the pretense of those who know **a little bit** about a subject -- just
enough to be arrogant about their knowledge, but not enough to be humbled by
it.
Think about it.
(but don't hurt your little old Midwestern self ;) )
Jim