[BRIEF NOTE] Approaches to Rhetoric
Nov. 18th, 2004 05:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldWhen we were both active on USENET, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
autopope's posts on SHWI back in the last millennium were frequently followed by a .SIG written by one Geoff Miller.
This somewhat wince-inducing quote later appeared in Stross's excellent novel Iron Sunrise, excellent not only because a major character has to flee the Newfoundland Four outpost ahead of an unfortunate and unexpected nova. (Poor New Muscovite stellar meteorologist. Poor New Moscow, for that matter.)
The more that I think about this .SIG (i.e. the more successfully I get past the wince-inducing initial reaction), the more that I think that it actually provides useful advice to anyone interested in making arguments. Why stop halfway?
autopope's posts on SHWI back in the last millennium were frequently followed by a .SIG written by one Geoff Miller.Now let us peel back the foreskin of misconception and apply the wire brush of enlightenment.
This somewhat wince-inducing quote later appeared in Stross's excellent novel Iron Sunrise, excellent not only because a major character has to flee the Newfoundland Four outpost ahead of an unfortunate and unexpected nova. (Poor New Muscovite stellar meteorologist. Poor New Moscow, for that matter.)
The more that I think about this .SIG (i.e. the more successfully I get past the wince-inducing initial reaction), the more that I think that it actually provides useful advice to anyone interested in making arguments. Why stop halfway?
