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I may be reading The Rifles next; I bought it two years ago in Chicago.
I may be reading The Rifles next; I bought it two years ago in Chicago.
posted by jon faith at
7:12 PM
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Would like to thank you for the chance over the last couple of years to be apart of your samizdat reading group. Although it has been a quest and a twist of what I would normally read, it is not what I choose and will probably not join in for future reads. Please don't take this as fluff, but it was not what I thought it would be and really, it is not what I desire to get any kind of escapism for reading that text that I liked. Reading for me is just as it sounds, escapism. Thanks.....Ed
For Ed here: That's too bad, your dogged pace with many of the texts under review forced (if not shamed) me into keeping up at least a bit on any number of occasions and your anecdotes often gave room to stop and chuckle, consider, or both. All else aside, I have to extend many thanks for the referral to Balakian's "Buring Tigris" which has become a staple reference in the Genocide class I teach. To the hardest working man in the electric business, be well
jv
Joel thanks for the kind words, but dude you looked down your nose at me one to many times. When you made the statement of me being "more of a pocketback book reader", my mind was made up.
So may I inject this laymans law:
"Don't trash your grunt, he may one day be your boss."
Ed, I have little desire to raise issue here on Jon's spare piece of electronic turf and I'll gladly cop to the fact that you are hardly the first to find/call me arrogant, nor are you likely to be the last! But if you thought I singled you out for anything more than I heap on most everyone - and particularly myself - on Samizdat then I do most hearily and humbly apologize. I must confess, however, that I am drawing a blank on the particular "pocketbook" slight you reference here. It be of no matter in the grand scheme I suppose. I meant what I offered before and do here now with this.
jv
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