Willard McCarty <MCCARTY@vm.epas.utoronto.ca> (01/11/90)
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 919. Wednesday, 10 Jan 1990. Date: Wed, 10 Jan 90 19:19:00 EST From: NMILLER@vax1.trincoll.edu Subject: The Name of the Bloom I understand every word that Kessler (of UCLA) writes. Even every phrase and almost every sentence. But, taken all in all, I confess that I have no idea what he's talking about. Since it's unlikely that Kessler is similarly disadvantaged, I have decided that he's really writing Aesopian and that it's up to us to do the decoding. Here is one possible interpretation. A department chair or deanlet at UCLA whose name is either LeFleur or Rosenbaum has written, at the orders of his local Communist Party cell, an attack on left-leaning tax accountants. This attack was intentionally clumsy and over-written in order to produce a boomerang in favor of his supposed targets. For instance, they stand accused of preparing forms with blunt pencils (is it an accident that Blunt was also the name of a notorious KGB agent?), a charge sure to be rejected by those for whom sharp means deceitful. Meanwhile, the CP has ordered its fellow-travellers to com- plain about the dean's tight-fistedness in dispensing office supplies, thus producing another boomerang, this time among watchful taxpayers, in favor of the dean's continued control of the apparatus. The resultant confusion has diverted attention from the impending merger of the party with the National Rifle Association. I know there's even more, but it's as far as this untrained reader can go.