[KS] Re: Recent Posting on Kim and Nobel
David Richard McCann
dmccann at fas.harvard.edu
Tue Oct 17 11:03:51 EDT 2000
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Well, are we getting some place? I may be being overly sensitive. I
kid myself a lot, thinking I am actually trying to pay some attention to
what happened, what was said, and what did not happen, what was not
said. But I would call that being alert, and being called overly alert
is not something I would object to, at my age. But am I being overly
sensitive, or is it being alert, if I notice a certain disparaging tone
in the phrase 'overly sensitive'? Well never mind. Let's be specific,
not sensitive. In whose briefcase, let me ask, was that document carried
from Harvard to Korea? What is the population of "Korea?" Does the
writer mean North or South? How many of the total number make up the
'vast majority' refered to? What specifically does it mean to be a
functionary of the West? Doesn't logic collapse in identifying someone
as both an opponent of the ROK and a functionary of the West? If logic
has colllapsed, what is left but pleen?
DM
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