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rshow55
- 08:10am May 24, 2003 EST (#
11903 of 11903) Can we do a better job of finding
truth? YES. Click "rshow55" for some things Lchic and I have
done and worked for on this thread.
I appreciate lchic in her entirety - and I'm
grateful and proud to work with her.
I don't just appreciate her as an "ineffectual
intellectual" - she's one of the most effectual and
incisive intellectuals I've ever known - and my guess is one
of the most valuable minds alive. I appreciate her as a whole
person - as she is - in her entirety.
And we have a deep and binding relationship - that has been
important to both of us. We're intellectual partners and
collaborators. I care desperately about that - and hope it
continues. Steve Kline was my partner before. There were some
awkwardnesses in my relationship with Steve (both his wife and
his department at Stanford were sometimes jealous of Steve's
attentions to me) - but it was easier, in some key ways,
because Steve was male.
I'd add that my wife, my parents and (a little later, my
sibs) have been pretty fully informed about my relationship
with, and feelings about lchic since middle to late
2000. As informed as they wish to be, I think. And they can be
just as informed as they wish to be - by asking - and looking
at records where those records exist. On balance, by workable
human standards, I feel justified in everything I've done or
thought about doing with lchic - and think she's had
very good reasons - by reasonable human standards - for the
things she's done and thought about doing with me.
Fredmoore's 11892 contains this:
Now in many many ways that is quite
beautiful but in others ... in ways that really matter,
ugly.
Maybe so - but providing reasonable weights on what
has happened - I think lchic has done superbly well -
and been just as honorable as a human being can realistically
asked to be - with human limitations and primate facts as they
are - and social complications as they are.
I'd hope others might have similar judgements about me - if
they took the trouble to learn enough to judge.
I think both of us have been doing the very best we can -
and deserve enough backing that we can do the good
things we've shown we can do better.
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