Re: Hey, Jobst, on p39 of The Bicycle Wheel the graph appears to show the ?impossibility of...

On Sep 15, 12:00 am, jim beam <spamvor...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Peter Cole wrote:
Andre Jute wrote:
Brandt travels with gang of thugs (what Cole calls his
"fanboys") to beat up those who dare question him.

No, I don't. What I said was:

"You [Andre Jute] state that all of us defending Jobst's book are
fan-boy apologists (to use a little less rude language)."

but why would you want to defend someone else's mistakes in the first
place????

answers have to include:

1. inability to figure out "tbw"'s mistakes in the first place.
2. inability to follow /why/ something is a mistake, even when it's
pointed out to you.
3. fan-boy sycophancy

any of the above, peter cole, make you and any of your utterings a
target for extreme ridicule.

Hang on a minute, Jimbo. Peter is on record as saying that not
altering the graph as printed in three editions of Brandt's The
Bicycle Wheel is a "gaffe", which is a poncey French way of saying a
stupid mistake. (Peter is welcome to finetune my paraphrasing.) Brandt
has actually publicly apologized for this (to Peter, not to me). It is
thus incorrect to say that Peter defends the graph as it stands; he
merely believes that the confusion it sows is a minor quibble when
measured against the information it contains.

As a professional writer I cannot agree with Peter; I would be a
hypocrite if I did, as I have written in five handbooks for other
writers that if all confusing subtexts cannot be removed from an
element offered to the least intelligent of your readers, the writer
should trash it mercilessly. It is just another lesson Brandt hasn't
learned, among many others he should by now be expected to have
mastered, but clearly hasn't. (A subtext is a tiny potential for
confusion of meaning, not an error that tries to contradict the laws
of physics, as on the graph on p39 of Brandt's book The Bicycle
Wheel. I never contemplated a writer who would make a mistake that
raw.)

As a very intelligent reader, I disagree diametrically with Peter.
That graph is such a pain in the arse, it should be presented
radically differently, or, best of all, trashed altogeher. It is a
terrible curse of amateur writers that they fall in love with their
own cleverness. You can almost see Brandt's face in that last
sentence, can't you?

Andre Jute
http://members.lycos.co.uk/fiultra/
.

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