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To: nigel bates who wrote (37890)	10/13/2008 6:45:09 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

To put things in perspective regarding Hitchens being a polemicist, imagine if any of us went back in time to the 1500's. We could not say a single word which would not be polemic. Maybe that is what I always liked about Hitchens. Most pundits I listen to are smart (I love Michael Kinsley), but I know most of the stuff they say. With Hitchens he often takes me to new realities that did not occur to me. Like Plato's Allegory of the Cave, which had such a huge impact on my early thinking, one always tries to see the reality behind he reality. Sort of like Joyce who was among the first to incorporate quantum physics in his writings. I do not pretend to understand Joyce very well, or at all-lol, but pretty much all of Mcluhan's ideas come from Joyce, as he readily admits and I do know many of his interpretations of Joyce. Mcluhan felt Finnagins Wake was the most important book ever written. I couldn't understand it. A good story involves Einstein completing newtons theories. For decades physict's and mathematician's knew Newtons formulas worked very well, but not perfectly. So they made these little arbitrary adjustemnts. Einstein came along and said: "you can't do that-lol". He then figured out time was a forth diminsion and all of Newtons formulas worked perfectly after that.