Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 11:45:40 -0500 From: H-GERMAN EDITOR Dan Rogers To: Multiple recipients of list H-GERMAN Subject: Michael Geyer's Defence of Postmodernism Submitted by: John Conway Dear Editor: Can you please help me, when you have a week or two to spare, and tell me, in words that are not too long, just what the term "post-modernism" means, so that I can learn not to get caught up in the kind of "Zusammengewickeltevielsilbigkeiten" used by Michael Geyer? I feel sure that you learnt in your youth that we can say what we mean in ways that are both brief and clear. That is why we like books which can be read by those of us who try to write with a terse style and do not use terms which give us a pain in the neck. It is more than the mind can bear if we have to make sense out of all this Quatsch, or to think twice when we read this sort of prose which is far too dense. It is the kind of thing up with which we should not have to put! Most of the words used by Mike are much too long. I do not know what some of them meant, or at least I am not sure that I do. What the hell is wrong with short words? Why not use more of them? Don't the long words he used set your teeth on edge, tax your wits too far, rouse your ire, and bring on Angst? Best of luck John Conway .