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                                                    May      5, 2016
                                                    October 31, 2016
  Looking back at Blish's "William                           
  Atheling, Jr" work in "The Issue
  at Hand" his pretensions aren't        I mean: he borrowed a
  wearing well.                          pen name from Ezra Pound?

  His comments on Spillane, Leiber, etc.
  sound like material for Crosley Bendix.    A thought: Do the Crosley Bendix   
                                             routine but use actual criticism.



  Trying to read Philip Kitchner's piece in
  "Social Epistemology: Five Questions",
  I'm afflicted by that same sense that
  there's something wrong with the guy's tone.

  Kitchner can't coherently describe what his area of
  interest: He's struggling with the same things as X,
  he's converged on the same stuff as Y, he's not at
  all like those boring folks Z.

      "I have been concerned with the possibility of
      integrating an understanding of the objectivity
      of our best forms of knowledge or with the
      insights obtained from [the history of science]"?



            Evaluating a speaker based on tone like
            this is a tricky business.  It doesn't
            mean nothing, but how much does it mean?




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