Howard Ferstler wrote:
wrote:
Howard Ferstler wrote:
I did not freak out. I saw the internet column and decided,
because my name had been mentioned, to send you a note.
We "debated" for a while via email, and then, after you
realized that you were not able to back up your claims about
the LP record and tube amplifiers (because they are silly),
you had a filter installed that would cause your server to
reject messages by me. "I don't want to hear the truth,"
says you.
What a medieval attitude you have.
We didn't "debate for a while" via e-mail. I didn't even read your
e-mails.
Now, don't tell fibs. Nobody here believes that you at least
did not scan the messages for cannon fodder.
Nope. Surely by now you should realize that no one reads what you
write. I've never been able to get through more than a paragraph of
your writing, and I'm someone who has read Ulysses, Gravity's Rainbow,
and The Sound and the Fury several times. You stink as a writer.
Mechanically, it's all okay, but there is no wit, no insight, no
imagination, no style. Your prose could have been written by a
computer program. I tend to avoid it like the plague.
I know saying that I secretly do read your stuff is some kind of weird
strategy that you're trying to employ, but the truth is, Howard, you're
a boring writer, and that I have better ways to invest my time.
I did, however, respond to you here. You started spouting
your usual gibberish, including reposting your dreary, irrelevant
ruminations on Spinoza for no apparent reason other than to spam the
newsgroup. Explain to us again how Spinoza and the LP are connected.
This is funny. We have Middius and other goofballs spouting
here all the time and you lambaste me for posting a
published article I wrote on the philosopher Spinoza.
And again, what does that have to do with vinyl and turntables?
The reason no one listens to you has nothing to do with whether or not
you're speaking the truth. It has to do with your writing style.
Because I do not treat you nitwits with the respect you
think you deserve. Well, pal, you guys do not deserve any
respect at all. You are a misleading blot on the whole
business of audio.
But what you fail to realize is that your respect is of no consequence
to anyone other than yourself. Your wrecking ball turned into a powder
puff. You retired because you didn't matter anymore. People stopped
listening to you and started making fun of you. You were caught
plagiarizing, and that completely destroyed whatever credibility you
thought you had.
And yet you come slinking back in here periodically, hoping that
everyone forgot what a fool you made of yourself. You look like a
mental patient, limping back in here for your biannual dose of
ridicule.
You and Arny are two reasons why I no longer hang around here very much
anymore. It got to the point where I recognized that the two of you
were genuine headcases, not an anonymous Internet approximation of one.
I wouldn't associate with such lowlifes in the real world...why would
I here?
Boon