Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site denelcor.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!security!genrad!grkermit!masscomp!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!denelcor!neal From: neal@denelcor.UUCP Newsgroups: net.books Subject: Re: The last word in spelling flames! Message-ID: <290@denelcor.UUCP> Date: Mon, 30-Jan-84 21:56:07 EST Article-I.D.: denelcor.290 Posted: Mon Jan 30 21:56:07 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 2-Feb-84 01:01:52 EST References: <577@nsc.UUCP> Organization: Denelcor, Aurora, CO Lines: 41 ************************************************************************** Chuqui, First a couple of "confessions": I didn't make it through the whole tToP, I could only handle the first four chapters. So, I am in no position to comment on what he didn't say. I wasn't trying for a rational criticism, my response was in net.flame (I hadn't noticed that you had posted your article to both newsgroups). As such, I came out swinging from my gut and felt justified in doing so. Reading your response though, has started me thinking about why I reacted the way I did. (Thanks for that by the way--and you're right, this has become entirely too rational for net.flame.) > What this >tells me is that he saw Pooh as a vision of Taoist perfection (if such can >truly exist) and wrote the book in a very black/white orientation. I think you have the essence of my objections right here--Taoist perfection(???) Again, I claim no particular familiarity with Tao; but the notion of perfection seems pretty out-of-place in any Eastern religion/philosophy as does a black/white orientation. Unless you mean black/white in the sense of yin and yang--but tToP offered me no sense of the balance that yin and yang is all about. I think that lack of balance is another way of stating my objection. And my apologies to both of you if chapters 5-n would restore that. >The difficult we gave up on yesterday, the impossible we are giving up on now. ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ | | | | | | | | | | (Hear, hear) Regards, Neal Weidenhofer Denelcor, Inc.!denelcor!neal