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From: Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: Loops (was Re: do { quit; } else { })
Date: Tue, 13 May 2025 07:31:06 +0100
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On 13/05/2025 06:42, Tim Rentsch wrote:
> Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> writes:
> 
>> On 12/05/2025 15:19, Tim Rentsch wrote:
>>
>>> It strikes me that you have a rather self-centered view of the
>>> world.
>>
>> So do you.  So do I. So does everybody else.  Your eyes are at the
>> precise centre of your observable universe.
> 
> I think you have misunderstood me.

I hope so, because the alternative is unpalatable.

> (At some later time I may have more to say about your other
> comments, but it seemed important to respond to this part
> more promptly.)

I think you chose the least important part to respond to, so 
maybe you have misunderstood me, too.

I was trying to defend an honourable man from what seemed to me 
to be an unfair and unnecessarily unkind observation. The 
paragraph you quote above acknowledges that in some literal sense 
your accusation of self-centredness is accurate, and so implies 
by omission that the more metaphorical sense that I think you 
intended is /not/ accurate.

A fine distinction, some might say. But that's what the other 
paragraphs were for.

Keith's a big lad. He doesn't need me to defend him. But neither 
does he need you to attack him.

-- 
Richard Heathfield
Email: rjh at cpax dot org dot uk
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