Re: Smellhole Notes.
Posted: 02 Mar 2011 11:27
as I first started reading Amp's notes, a few things flew thru the non-analytical reptilian part of my mind:
I sort of scanned the Hellhole chapter, but didn't really think too hard about it and soon forgot all of it entirely;
it would have never occurred to me to go back over it in detail and try to comprehend and annotate the differences
between what Keith apparently thought he was saying versus what he actually said in publication ...
(this, I believe, is the Primary Fail of his own lack of Editing, the level of intelligence of his "proof-readers", and
the general unconcern of the ROT/Gorge folk - I think he has the story he's trying to tell in his mind, blurts it out
into the Machine, and never goes back to check his details, or if some uncorrected error unravels the entire thing ...
these people are, in fact, publishing first drafts ... and they are apparently not very good first drafts in the first place ...)
as with the McDune, I am certainly glad that some people do actually read and post about Keith's walking-talking-stories,
because I'm not going to read them, and as I just said, the excerpts I do read, I'm not going to think about too hard ...
this is my defense to the "how can you hate them w/o reading them?" pretard argument number whichever -
I trust the opinion and veracity of you folks that do this - from past experience, you have Credibility on this subject,
with me personally, built up over time;
again, all this was reptile-brain musing, flashing in less than a second or so ....
motivation - The SandChigger's academic mind-set + his cultivated pleasure with mocking Keith has created a hobby for him,
and the internet has allowed him a form of social contact with more-normal members of the species while he is living in a land
populated by insane aliens ... plus, he is a mean-minded bastard and Keith is an un-ending source of Stupidity & Fail,
coupled with an amazing hubris & willful ignorance of Reality (classic definition of "shitheel", BTW); people like Keith are
the reason mocking was invented ...
and right behind that, I realized that Amp works for booksellers ... one of the Corporate Franchise booksellers, I believe ?
his days are spent with books, new books, old books, people looking for books, people wanting opinions on books ...
he watches the browsing habits of the book-buying public, observes their reactions and personal conversations with
each other as they pick up a book and turn to their friends ... & etc.
maybe the word is "gravitas" ... all of us here have some interest in Frank's Dune, some have interest in Frank as a
literary & historical figure, most have some interest in "Science Fiction" as a genre, and most are well above average
public intelligence ... we all have personal opinions and comments on the topics discussed here, but some pigs are more
equal than others, due to our vocations, or education, or life experiences ....
[big-time sidebar]
and this sietch IS a functioning democracy coupled with a benevolent-dictatorship for police action - meaning we all
recognize Freakzilla as naib and are honor-bound to respect his Wishes & Desires (this is because he has proven himself,
over time, to be worthy of this Respect) and accept the Hammer-fist of Omphalos, because this is an ordered-society
of a type, and some police-action is always necessary; and as with Freak, Omph has proven over time to be a fair and
just moderator, with measured judgment ...
[sidebar_f'instance] I did not and do not agree with the banning and casting-out of the Sloe Man. I believe an important
and valued piece of our sietch-culture was lost with his going; others may & do disagree, this is a personal thing for me;
I enjoyed Sloey very much and miss him greatly ... but the decision was not mine to make, and again, I am honor-bound
to accept the Judgment; I donot agree with banning of any type, to include St. Hypatia & Arnoldo the Poison-dwarf .. I
would rather have them here and spouting non-sense; however, I am also a Fan of Anarchy, and I realize that not everyone
could contain themselves to witty & clever & sharp retorts, and the responses to these two would eventually, if not
automatically, devolve into "FUCK YOU YOU FUCKING FUCK", which would not be conducive to fruitful discussion; and
while my argument rests of the ability of the Hammer-fist to delete and purge posts (to which I am also fundamentally
opposed) I am not the moderator - it would not be my responsibility to perform the time-consuming task of dealing
with a case like The Swordmaster, after his melt-down, or whatever happened to him .... I understand Omph's
decision there ... as a policy, I am unhappy with it, but as a realistic measure, I have to support it ... [/sidebar]
[/big-time sidebar]
the preceding was ancillary observation on the structure of the sietch,
and on the evolution of our shared sietch-culture only to propose that
Ampoliros be allotted a contained space, here or @TAU, for the archiving
of his various notes ... with a personal caveat :
that the notes be edited to tone down and/or purge the snarky comments;
as a post, they are entertaining - as a serious "criticism" they detract from
the "gravitas"; I believe that Ampoliros, from his vocation and experience,
is a "more equal pig" in this arena; I would like to see him hone his
"Literary Criticism" skills to a professional level, and I'd like to give him
privileged space to do so...
I sort of scanned the Hellhole chapter, but didn't really think too hard about it and soon forgot all of it entirely;
it would have never occurred to me to go back over it in detail and try to comprehend and annotate the differences
between what Keith apparently thought he was saying versus what he actually said in publication ...
(this, I believe, is the Primary Fail of his own lack of Editing, the level of intelligence of his "proof-readers", and
the general unconcern of the ROT/Gorge folk - I think he has the story he's trying to tell in his mind, blurts it out
into the Machine, and never goes back to check his details, or if some uncorrected error unravels the entire thing ...
these people are, in fact, publishing first drafts ... and they are apparently not very good first drafts in the first place ...)
as with the McDune, I am certainly glad that some people do actually read and post about Keith's walking-talking-stories,
because I'm not going to read them, and as I just said, the excerpts I do read, I'm not going to think about too hard ...
this is my defense to the "how can you hate them w/o reading them?" pretard argument number whichever -
I trust the opinion and veracity of you folks that do this - from past experience, you have Credibility on this subject,
with me personally, built up over time;
again, all this was reptile-brain musing, flashing in less than a second or so ....
motivation - The SandChigger's academic mind-set + his cultivated pleasure with mocking Keith has created a hobby for him,
and the internet has allowed him a form of social contact with more-normal members of the species while he is living in a land
populated by insane aliens ... plus, he is a mean-minded bastard and Keith is an un-ending source of Stupidity & Fail,
coupled with an amazing hubris & willful ignorance of Reality (classic definition of "shitheel", BTW); people like Keith are
the reason mocking was invented ...
and right behind that, I realized that Amp works for booksellers ... one of the Corporate Franchise booksellers, I believe ?
his days are spent with books, new books, old books, people looking for books, people wanting opinions on books ...
he watches the browsing habits of the book-buying public, observes their reactions and personal conversations with
each other as they pick up a book and turn to their friends ... & etc.
maybe the word is "gravitas" ... all of us here have some interest in Frank's Dune, some have interest in Frank as a
literary & historical figure, most have some interest in "Science Fiction" as a genre, and most are well above average
public intelligence ... we all have personal opinions and comments on the topics discussed here, but some pigs are more
equal than others, due to our vocations, or education, or life experiences ....
[big-time sidebar]
and this sietch IS a functioning democracy coupled with a benevolent-dictatorship for police action - meaning we all
recognize Freakzilla as naib and are honor-bound to respect his Wishes & Desires (this is because he has proven himself,
over time, to be worthy of this Respect) and accept the Hammer-fist of Omphalos, because this is an ordered-society
of a type, and some police-action is always necessary; and as with Freak, Omph has proven over time to be a fair and
just moderator, with measured judgment ...
[sidebar_f'instance] I did not and do not agree with the banning and casting-out of the Sloe Man. I believe an important
and valued piece of our sietch-culture was lost with his going; others may & do disagree, this is a personal thing for me;
I enjoyed Sloey very much and miss him greatly ... but the decision was not mine to make, and again, I am honor-bound
to accept the Judgment; I donot agree with banning of any type, to include St. Hypatia & Arnoldo the Poison-dwarf .. I
would rather have them here and spouting non-sense; however, I am also a Fan of Anarchy, and I realize that not everyone
could contain themselves to witty & clever & sharp retorts, and the responses to these two would eventually, if not
automatically, devolve into "FUCK YOU YOU FUCKING FUCK", which would not be conducive to fruitful discussion; and
while my argument rests of the ability of the Hammer-fist to delete and purge posts (to which I am also fundamentally
opposed) I am not the moderator - it would not be my responsibility to perform the time-consuming task of dealing
with a case like The Swordmaster, after his melt-down, or whatever happened to him .... I understand Omph's
decision there ... as a policy, I am unhappy with it, but as a realistic measure, I have to support it ... [/sidebar]
[/big-time sidebar]
the preceding was ancillary observation on the structure of the sietch,
and on the evolution of our shared sietch-culture only to propose that
Ampoliros be allotted a contained space, here or @TAU, for the archiving
of his various notes ... with a personal caveat :
that the notes be edited to tone down and/or purge the snarky comments;
as a post, they are entertaining - as a serious "criticism" they detract from
the "gravitas"; I believe that Ampoliros, from his vocation and experience,
is a "more equal pig" in this arena; I would like to see him hone his
"Literary Criticism" skills to a professional level, and I'd like to give him
privileged space to do so...