Re: no, but seriously
Tim O'Connor (tim@roughdraft.org)
Sat, 04 Apr 1998 17:35:33 -0500
> 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.
Oh.
--tim