Dovina18 Nov 2004

1, 2 "Converse" applies when the elements of a propositioin are reversed, i. e. "I love you" and "You love me." Opposite is something that is diametrically opposed to the proposition, i.e. "I hate you." Contrary describes something that contradicts a proposition, i.e. "I do not love you." Reverse can describe either of these.

4. The difference between your example and my poem is the same as between all of your smug flaunting of logical correctness and my stretching of life metaphorically beyond your limits of feeling. Need I say that yours is all a kind of math, supposedly connected by reason, whereas mine relates felt life in unusual ways. When I say my dictionary is a compendium of devolution, you complain, and when I say it records my history before I lived it, you complain. And your objections are trivial logic without a shred of life.

Last time, you fell back on your education, this time on stoicism, contortions of language, extreme arogance, and not a trace of kindness. Your education is of no more interset to me than your complexion or the way you walk. Your written words are all that matter here. You must be a hard man to live with, Mr. Zodiac.