Reverence to Wine

I' m not about to give up either Pound's poetry or Celine's fiction. His pamphlets can rot in hell. This is the first time in my life anyone has identified my politics as right of center. I suppose if we were in France in 1793,then maybe.
 
originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
I' m not about to give up either Pound's poetry or Celine's fiction. His pamphlets can rot in hell. This is the first time in my life anyone has identified my politics as right of center. I suppose if we were in France in 1793,then maybe.
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I said "if they were." I never believed they were. My apologies for an ambiguous use of the past subjunctive.
 
originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:


There's an anecdote that used to make the rounds when I was an undergraduate: someone, while stoned, suddenly had what he thought was a world shaking epiphany. He managed to write it down. Next morning, he found in his pocket a scrap of paper on which was written "there's a funny smell in here."

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That story is from “A Child’s Garden of Grass” - and I am pretty sure the line is actually “it smells funny in here”
 
I have looked at the sentence, "And as far as your views or Tom's on politics, well, if they were not right of center, all would be cool 'round these parts" and I cannot construe it even into ambiguity. I have tried to read the "were" as a subjunctive and just can't manage it. I assume you mean something like, "only because your and Tom's politics are not right of center are things cool in these parts." If that's what you mean, I hope you are incorrect. Keith's politics, at least, are indeed right of center and though he gives and takes abuse for it, no one yet has called him dishonorable.
 
originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
I have looked at the sentence, "And as far as your views or Tom's on politics, well, if they were not right of center, all would be cool 'round these parts" and I cannot construe it even into ambiguity. I have tried to read the "were" as a subjunctive and just can't manage it. I assume you mean something like, "only because your and Tom's politics are not right of center are things cool in these parts." If that's what you mean, I hope you are incorrect. Keith's politics, at least, are indeed right of center and though he gives and takes abuse for it, no one yet has called him dishonorable.
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Yup. It was more than a tad convoluted. Mea culpa. What I meant was that politics which are right of center are barely or not tolerated on this bored. I probably haven't read enough posts to have noted Keith's politics. I'm not sure I would call someone dishonourable because I disagreed with them vehemently, though I find most views on the right to be abhorrent.
 
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