> From: Joe Starck <josephbstarck@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [CR]Re: File Marks
Joe wrote (heavily snipped before I nodded off)
> Bruce,
> "Anal" is not synonomous with "perfection." "Anal is
> derisive. It connotes a disorder. It pathologizes what
> is, in fact, a virtue. Perfectionism is a virtue. It's
> creative; it's procreative. It conserves; it
> preserves. It ensures; it endures. It protects. It's
> all that and more. It is a learned, guiding pursuit.
> Perfectionism reigns supreme in Science, Art and
> Craft. It's been around since, at least, gee whiz, the
> beginning of civilization." zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Joe,
I take it that, in your two years at journalism school, you studied pompous crap in your first and pretentious crap in your second?
Bruce
Dundee
Scotland