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Walter Egon's avatar

Damn, David!

This is highly interesting stuff, and not something I feel I can just acknowledge with a glib smileyface and move on. But this is a deep historio-philosophical essay in its own right; it demands serious work and concentration to digest. I might be a devil at dovetails, but I know my limits; I'm halfway through at the first sitting, and I'll come back and do my best, but I won't promise anything my brain can't deliver :-)

Why aren't you lecturing for students? (or perhaps you are, for all I know ...)

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Walter Egon's avatar

PS - You might have triggered a bit of doggerel:

My real self

is a mental elf ...

We'll see what comes out of it.

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David Pinder's avatar

I'm on it! More contributions gratefully welcomed :-)

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David Pinder's avatar

I'm thrilled that you regard it as worth reading. My problem is that, for the most part, I'm working things out as I go along.That's why there are very often some U-turns and tricky chicanes along the way.

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Walter Egon's avatar

'tricky chicanes' ... those two words have a certain ring to them.

They sound a bit like a character from a sleazy, American detective series from the seventies ... Tricky Chicane, a sassy streetwalker with a heart of gold and a mouth like a sewer, occasional sidekick to the main man, private detective Buck Rockwell.

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David Pinder's avatar

Now you're talkin'! I'm a huge fan of the American detective genre from Dashiell Hammett, to Raymond Chandler, to Charles Willeford and onwards. Here's Willeford from Miami Blues, one of the Hoke Moseley series: "It took Hoke twenty minutes to find his teeth, but they had landed in a cluster of screw-leaved crotons and weren't damaged. He put them into a fresh glass of water with another helping of Polident and wondered what in the hell he was going to do next."

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