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From: neal@denelcor.UUCP
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Subject: Re: The last word in spelling flames!
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Date: Mon, 30-Jan-84 21:56:07 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 30 21:56:07 1984
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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.

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			Regards,
				Neal Weidenhofer
				Denelcor, Inc.
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