Re: Just one more anecdote


"dawn" <dawnwolthuis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Marshall Spight wrote:

> And somehow I didn't laugh. Call me stupid or ignorant and I can agree
> that I can be and laugh it off, but call me angry or bitter and I can't
> figure out how my writing would portray someone so unlike me. I get
> this self-doubt thing going -- "do I have an axe to grind?" -- I am not
> conscious of one, so is there something in my subconscious, and on and
> on and on.

What makes you think that "grinding an axe" implies angry or bitter?

> > However, he also took you to task for "assuming" something in a
> > paragraph that you started with "My conjecture is" and ended
> > with "I could be wrong, of course." And it wasn't even a very
> > long paragraph. Point Dawn.

The only thing I took exception to was the single word "downgraded". I
should have been more clear about that than I was. Sorry if I confused
anyone. The rest of your conjecture is just that, a conjecture. I don't
see where you get it from, but I'm not going to "take you to task" for it.
That's not my place.



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