_________________________________________________________________ Re: IndiaStar article on Rushdie _________________________________________________________________ * _To_: Multiple recipients of list SASIALIT <[5]SASIALIT@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU> * _Subject_: Re: IndiaStar article on Rushdie * _From_: Subir Grewal <[6]grewals@ACF2.NYU.EDU> * _Date_: Tue, 14 May 1996 02:28:25 -0400 * _Comments_: To: "C.J.S. WALLIA" * _In-Reply-To_: <31982CB8.14C7@indiastar.com> * _Reply-To_: Joined Trill <[7]hostmaster@trill-home.com> * _Sender_: SASIALIT -- Literature of South Asia and the Indian diaspora <[8]SASIALIT@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU> _________________________________________________________________ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Mon, 13 May 1996, C.J.S. WALLIA wrote: :My review of Rushdie's writings was well received by many at the :University of California, Berkeley, and by the vibrant literary :community here. Nice to know you have company where you are ;~) :You don't like my review. No problem. What is reprehensible is your ad :hominem attacks on me. Several of your assertions-- for example, drop :your Ph.D.-- sound like the screams of a street brawler. I wonder whether your fixation with the Ph.D. issue is really pretension or simply anxious desire to be taken seriously. Perhaps pretension too requries a degree of sincerity. What I'd suggested were prescriptions, a certain degree of nonchalance you (as a reader) appear to lack, and something that may heighten your appreciation of Rushdie. You insist of course, on wearing a safari suit and arranging the crease on your iron(ed) pants even when drinking scotch. Well, all good things to you Mr. Walia, I doubt you will ever move past a sense of being wronged by "ad hominem attacks" made on you by unsympathetic post-modernists. Such fury that moves you to justified confusion while constructing sentences where my attacks "is" reprehensible. hostmaster@trill-home.com * Trills 4 thrills * Blue-Ribbon * Lynx 2.5 Elevators smell different to midgets -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQB1AwUBMZgoEhwDKqi8Iu65AQFIbAL/fcrWwg8jL3kHCDEMWSxilSGVqCyea0T+ 8LQeC+1wxdDCIr1eABK9EBgAp7y3yUQLwMh4dGP09IxcBBqu0/FS0POxE66amT69 X/8swACNODEYrdDJLD1egS27I78PGB+9 =SePe -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----