It is all just bluster...
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Absolutely. Just the word. As I say, dismissive bluster & assertive but baseless bluster are J's fall back when he hasn't anything else. See my example 4 posts back, which I think, with all due modesty, absolutely, in the lit-critical sense, absolutely 'places' Jim Carroll.

He keeps saying 'goodbye, I'm out' [another of his emotive evasions] & then coming back 3 minutes later with another right-off-the-point supposed clincher.

Well, when I say it I mean it. I am off. No point going on bashing head against the brick wall of evasion & incomprehension & bluster that goes by the name of J Carroll any longer.

Adieu, thread.

~M~