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Subject: Re: Ernst-Leopold (was Re: George Rex)
Date: Sat, 2 Aug 1997 16:53:41 -0400
D. Spencer Hines wrote:
> You still have not read the Book "The Caine Mutiny" ---- have you?
Actually I have read it twice--it's one of the great novels of the 20th
century. And I played Lieutenant Greenwald in a production of The Caine
Mutiny Court Martial, you know the lawyer who breaks Queeg on the stand
and then defends him at the party after the acquital in a long speech
that climaxes with the line, "He kept Herman Goering from washing his
fat behind with my mother." Sorry to disappoint you.
But YOU still haven't answered my perfectly reasonable question, and
everyone is wondering why you can't face answering it. The reason, of
course, is the same reason Queeg couldn't face the shore batteries and
threw over a dye marker: you are a coward.
So I repeat it, for the eighth time, what evidence and authority have
you for the following statement?:
> John Steele Gordon ---- probably deliberately ---- ignores the clear
> meaning of my statement.
You made the statement. Now defend it, apologize for it, or continue to
squirm pathetically in front of the entire newsgroup--like Queeg on the
witness stand--revealed ever more clearly for what you are: a bully, a
coward, and a hypocrite.
> Strike Six.
Actually one and half. I don't regard not knowing that some minor German
princeling killed himself a year ago as much of a lack of knowledge.
> Most batters only get the standard three.
But life isn't baseball, Mr. Hines. We all make mistakes and most of us
cheerfully acknowledge them and move on. You snivel and try to change
the subject by making personal attacks. Sort of like, oh, Captain Queeg.
Come on, old yellow stain, answer the question.
John Steele Gordon
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