> >>> Brad De Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 06/29/99 02:22PM >>> > >Brad De Long wrote: > > > > >To take a document and replace all appearances of the string "Mao >Zedong" by the string "Max Sawicky" is hardly a lampoon--callous or >otherwise. You see, the thing about such "totalitarian" language is >it makes fun of itself: it does not need lampooning by others. > >((((((((((((((((( > >Charles: However, when one reads the other passages written by Lin >Biao in the very same text, which Henry sent to the list, the >passages you sent don't sound totalitarian. Puh-leeze. There are no "other passages written by Lin Biao in the very same text." What I originally posted was the *whole* *effing* *thing*. Brad DeLong, shaking his head, muttering "dumber than dirt..." and off to the library...
