no, but seriously
Scottie Bowman (bowman@mail.indigo.ie)
Sat, 04 Apr 1998 21:14:53 +0000
Tim,
It's becoming obvious that our discussion has either
stupified people with boredom or you & I are verging onto
that ground where lightheartedness causes feelings of unease
- though lightheartedness is in my experience one of the great
identifiers of the really effective, whether in the arts or medicine
or soldiering or whatever.
You can take it I'm nearly always in deadly earnest. And as you
can see I'm constitutionally unable to express myself earnestly.
My last couple of posts should be seen as a prolonged howl
of exasperation at the armies of snake oil hucksters who have
come trooping to my door over the past 50 years flogging nostrums
- always supported with the latest & most rigorous research by
people who know rather less about true scientific method than
my cat - nostrums which are doomed to be discarded with
a disillusionment as passionate as the faith with which they were
originally embraced.
Scottie