MARK 1: 40-45
The Pleading Leper
A man with leprosy[h] came to him and begged him on his knees, “If you are willing, you can make me clean.”
Jesus was indignant.[i] He reached out his hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” he said. “Be clean!” Immediately the leprosy left him and he was cleansed.
Jesus sent him away at once with a strong warning: “See that you don’t tell this to anyone. But go, show yourself to the priest and offer the sacrifices that Moses commanded for your cleansing, as a testimony to them.” Instead he went out and began to talk freely, spreading the news.
Detterling let's not do anything hasty. I wonder if at this late stage an accommodation could be reached? A truce - even a temporary truce?
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Ah, phase three of the Gene Vincent Arse-Crawl.
ReplyDeletePhase 1: Arrogant, narcissistic boasting and lies from Gene Vincent, comprehensively and completely disproved and dismissed by Detterling.
Phase 2: Puny and unconvincing threats from Gene Vincent to attack Detterling’s family, as Gene is totally unable to argue against Detterling’s forensic logic
Phase 3: Gene, outclassed and desperate to avoid the humiliation about to befall him and his preposterous literary pretensions, offers a truce - a truce in a battle that he started and cannot now see how to finish.
Well, here is Phase 4: Detterling, comfortably aware that he is in an unassailable position. In no need of a truce or accommodation of any kind, and above all now delighted to be in a position completely to humiliate Gene Vincent and critically to destroy “Granny Barkes fell in Woolworths”, tells Gene Vincent to stuff his offer of an accommodation/truce up his arse.
You have published your work and it is in the literary market place. I have purchased a copy of it, read it several times, and I think it is incoherent, pretentious and meaningless nonsense. And, had you not lied about its being commercially published, had you not carelessly used a photograph of a real biologist to represent the non-existent “Granny Barkes” and replaced it immediately when this was noted - thus completely blowing the “Rattlesnake Press” fiction out of the water - had you not, above all, published the appalling boasts comparing your non existent body of work with that of Joyce. Waugh and Hemingway, I would probably have left my review at that - incoherent, pretentious and meaningless.
As it is, your renewal of threats to publish filth about my family have determined me to give you and your dreadful booklet the thorough going over your bombastic literary treason it - and you - deserve.
END OF.
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continues to bomb in the Amazon Best Seller lists. From 443,099th position twenty four hours ago, it has now plummeted to 472,144th, a fall of nearly 30,000 places. How much further can this booklet - incoherent, pretentious and meaningless crap, seventy plus pages of pointless photographs and six thousand words of verbal diarrhoea, the literary equivalent of a mixture of nose-pickings, smegma, dandruff and dangleberries.