http://www.cambridgeliteraryreview.org/2010/07/speaking-out/ Mon, 05 Dec 2011 15:15:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.cambridgeliteraryreview.org/2010/07/speaking-out/comment-page-1/#comment-24 Aidan Semmens Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:46:14 +0000 http://www.cambridgeliteraryreview.org/?p=370#comment-24 OK - only now do I realise the lyre piece was a spoof, not the work of JC himself. Please ignore my previous post - except maybe the concluding sentence, which I imagine still applies. OK – only now do I realise the lyre piece was a spoof, not the work of JC himself. Please ignore my previous post – except maybe the concluding sentence, which I imagine still applies.

]]> http://www.cambridgeliteraryreview.org/2010/07/speaking-out/comment-page-1/#comment-22 Aidan Semmens Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:38:46 +0000 http://www.cambridgeliteraryreview.org/?p=370#comment-22 Good grief - did the TLS really run that extraordinary piece of juvenile yah-boo-sucks you link to? And HE calls YOU 'little people'? Even setting aside the tedious playground 'comedy', it seems strange to brandish one's own lack of knowledge or understanding as a critical position. Your reply has all the dignity and intelligence that 'JC' appears to lack. As to why he should have written such an extraordinary attack in the first place, I can only assume a bad case of Cambridge-envy, or perhaps intellect-envy. Good grief – did the TLS really run that extraordinary piece of juvenile yah-boo-sucks you link to? And HE calls YOU ‘little people’?
Even setting aside the tedious playground ‘comedy’, it seems strange to brandish one’s own lack of knowledge or understanding as a critical position. Your reply has all the dignity and intelligence that ‘JC’ appears to lack.
As to why he should have written such an extraordinary attack in the first place, I can only assume a bad case of Cambridge-envy, or perhaps intellect-envy.

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