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To: Dan Day
I have yet to read any anti-Potter review (including the one that started this thread) that didn't strike me as either the work of someone who hadn't even bothered to actually read the books...

Is there any special reason you obsessively typed in several dozen random passages from the book?

Let's see, first you slam people for not reading the book, then when they type in passages from the book to make their points, you call them obsessive. Sounds like you've got it all sewn up.

113 posted on 11/03/2001 9:49:14 PM PST by Richard Kimball
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To: Richard Kimball
Let's see, first you slam people for not reading the book, then when they type in passages from the book to make their points, you call them obsessive. Sounds like you've got it all sewn up.

Look, typing in random passages from the book, without bothering to say what, exactly, the he objected to about any of them (presuming that even *was* his selection criteria), is not "making a point". It's being a stuttering fax machine. It's obsessive to spend lord knows how long typing in pages of text verbatim from the book, without having a single bit of reflection to add to the duplication effort. It's like the hundred typewritten pages of "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" from the movie "The Shining".

What makes this especially ludicrous on his part is that he's the same person who has admitted not actually reading the book. So he can't even be objecting to these passages in context, because without reading the book he doesn't even understand what they're in reference to, or how they relate to anything. Nor does he care, it would seem.

He clearly just flipped through the book at random, and typed in any passage that mentioned anything at all "magical" (including a singing valentine!), as if that itself somehow made any sort of point that any of us would find lucid. Yeah, there's magic in the book -- BFD. No one is disputing that point.

I'd love to see what he would do with a copy of "The Wizard of Oz".

If he was actually trying to "make a point", he might want to actually discuss his snippets next time, instead of mechanically spewing them en masse as if seeing random parts of the book again (which I myself *HAVE* read) is somehow going to suddenly make me see it "Aquinasfan's" way instead of the way I saw it when I was actually reading the bloody books myself.

It's not even like he was offering them in response to any particular query which would have explained what he was trying to show by playing cut-and-paste -- he pinged multiple people with them.

Maybe you're impressed at his ability to do what any four-year-old could do given a copy of the books, a pair of scissors and a jar of library paste, but I'm not. If he had an actual point to make with his "book in a blender" post, he failed to make it in any coherent fashion.

117 posted on 11/03/2001 10:34:15 PM PST by Dan Day
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