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From: John Steele Gordon <>
Subject: Re: Gordon Loses It Again --- No Surprise There
Date: Sat, 16 May 1998 17:47:10 -0400


D. Spencer Hines wrote:

> "Thinking" of course is what Gordon cannot do, whatever we choose to call
> it. And a writer who cannot ratiocinate and analyze is in a heap of
> trouble.
>
Then why do I get paid so well and so often to write? Or is everyone a
fool except D. Spencer Hines?

> Further, Gordon appears to be severely
> "Latin-challenged."
>
You got it. But again, in that way, I am like Shakespeare, whom his
friend Ben Jonson described as having "small Latin, and less Greek."

I guess we writers just muddle through without all that baggage that
makes idiots of intellectuals.

But do take the medicine, Mr. Hines. You're beginning to worry me.

John Steele Gordon

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