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BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Lowell G. McManus"
<mcmanus71496@m...> wrote:
> Mike,
>
> With all due respect to you and to multipointing (which I also
enjoy learning
> about and doing), I seem to remember that you became highly
interested and
> involved in such non-multipoint discussion here as:
of course of course
even if these hadnt been direct consequences of our
multipointing pursuits
& even if they hadnt been introduced as questions
& thus honored as surrogate tries while subjected to all the
rigors of multipunctilious analysis
they had multiple points of interest in & of themselves
> * NJNY on Ellis Island
third & for me culminating clave of our great american clave trio
plus most advanced & shortest & wackiest state line we have
plus several firsts
> * MXUS bridges
i know you didnt realize it
but this was actually the conclusion of a long discussion
developing out of the question of whether a boundary point
presumably a multipoint
might possibly fall in several different places at once
& thus be multiple in more than one sense
owing to a vertical displacement such as you actually found there
> * US-Republic of Texas monument (historic)
again i came at it initially for the totality & the ensemble
the only 2 international ghost rocks in the usa
presented historico thematically as a mardi gras sandwich
i had to stretch for my multiplicity there but it was fully conscious
> * CAUS at Seaway Island
this again began for me as a question about a potential
quadripoint or tripoints
assuming both indian reservations seceeded etc
& many questions needed to be answered just to entertain that
question
however silly it may have been
> * CTRI dispute
it is the ctmari dispute here
if it had only been a ctri dispute
well poof
> * Etc., etc., etc.
do you get it yet
& even if i couldnt persuade you that i am serious in every case
you may still have to grant me an occasional apparent lapse or
apparent inconsistency
as i will be the first to admit
& to grant to others
as i think you know
but what we are talking about is the persistent displacement of
our point with things people would like to be the point but arent
face it
most people would like the point to change
thats what the poll seems to say
but it is not a question of changing nor of exiling anything
it is a question of sharpening our focus again & again
aerating diluting diffusing or softening the focus from multiplicity
to anything else misses the point here
& is not merely off but actually centrifugal to our stated purpose
& i believe your earlier deprecations of multipointing for being
such a rare & demanding topic & discipline should rather be an
appreciation of its great value for that very reason
thanx for the flattering comments too
these are certainly correct & reciprocated
>
> If we do exile all non-multipoint topics to a new sister group, I
think that you
> would want to be in it too, and I think that it would benefit greatly
from your
> knowledge, experience, and unique perspective. Am I not
correct?
>
> Lowell G. McManus
> Leesville, Louisiana, USA