I could not completely accept Hermit's diagnosis of my paper,

[Hermit] That in the expressed opinion of the CoV (Reputation)
you are not representative of the CoV, never mind the best of the
CoV, and that in the expressed opinion of the CoV (Should Joe's
essay be included in the Best Of Virus?) your latest "paper" does
not deserve a place there, despite your "conceited", pompous,
arrogant assertion that it does ( [ Joe Dees, "virus: Call me
conceited...", 2003-08-08 ] . Perhaps because it seems to me (and
others) to read like an undergraduate with logorrhea's funding
request, lacking a theme, filled with waffle and developing
nothing.

Or Jakes,

Heh. well, I can follow a bit of it myself, but I sense that needless
academic complexity has little use for religious basis for CoV. I
would encourage people to try out some of these complex ideas in
the environment of CoV, however I think that we need to process
these ideas down into more accessible if still somewhat
metaphorical prose style. If CoV simply revolves arund an
academic post-modernist circle jerk then it doesn't really go
anywhere interesting. At a minimum I would want to see some
real data, evidence, or other scientifically reputable process at
work other than just regurgitating and playing with other people's
work at the computer screen. So if Joe actually did emperical
work to justify my actually trying to decipher his high-vocabulary
thoughts, I might give it a whirl. But since it doesn't seem that he
has, I think I will just leave Joe with his own thoughts on this one,
and vote that we not include this in best of virus. As a purely
creative endeavor, which this really best qualifies as, I have
certainly seen more compelling reading out of Joe.


because I have requested and received another opinion from Dr.
Bruce Dunn (PhD, Psychology, Cornell), and here's what he had
to say (only at the end; I omit his useful comments interspersed
with the text):

"A creative and thought-provoking work. The first part of the
paper was easily read and understood by an intelligent lay person.