Larry Parr wrote (20 Apr 2006 04:12:52 -0700):
Randy Bauer posted as follows,
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"Ray Keene wrote a few good books, and
he wrote some absolute crap. I wouldn't
hold him up as a paragon of chess writing
virtue. There are some Schiller books I
would buy before some of Keene's later
efforts."
...

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Larry Parr wrote (21 Apr 2006 21:25:45 -0700):

... my position ... was based precisely on
what Mr. Bauer wrote. ...

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Does "some" mean "the others"?
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"Mr. Bauer spoke of the English grandmaster
writing a 'few' (a small number of') good books
whilst the others were 'crap.'" - Larry Parr
(17 Apr 2006 20:40:11 -0700)

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Taylor Kingston wrote (21 Apr 2006 07:06:31 -0700):
I recall a song from the mid-1960s with the line "Sometimes
I laugh, sometimes I cry." I guess Larry Parr would claim
that means the singer had only two emotional states:
laughing and crying. No calm, no quiet joy or sadness,
no fear, no anger, no mild bemusement, etc.

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Larry Parr wrote (21 Apr 2006 21:25:45 -0700):

... In the case of Mr. Kingston's popular song, we
are dealing with a range of human emotions which
are understood to exist in ALL HUMAN BEINGS.
There is no NECESSARY UNDERSTANDING that
there is a wide range of quality in a given author's
euvre. ...

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Wouldn't the usual expectation be that if a few good
books and some absolute crap had been written by
an author, there were probably some books between
those two extremes? Where is there any justification
for the idea that the Randy Bauer quote was indicating
"a two-fold division of GM Keene's oeuvre of over 130
books"?

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Larry Parr wrote (21 Apr 2006 21:25:45 -0700):

One may reasonably conclude that someone may
divide books into two types WITHIN a given author's
oeuvre, which is precisely what Mr. Bauer did.
(Emphasis added.)

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Is Larry Parr quietly shifting ground? Is he at last
agreeing that Randy Bauer was writing about books
WITHIN GM Keene's "oeuvre" and not writing about
"a two-fold division of GM Keene's oeuvre of over 130
books"? If Larry Parr does indeed perceive this, he
should be apologizing for previous statements such
as:
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"Randy Bauer has gone from Ray
Keene writing a 'few' good books out
of 130 (what is few? my Webster's
gives 'a small number of') with 'the rest'
being crap (about 120 to 125) -- well,
he has gone from that initial smear to
..." - Larry Parr (17 Apr 2006
14:49:54 -0700)
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Would GM Keene venture to agree with Larry Parr
that statements like this (and the 17 Apr 2006
20:40:11 -0700 quoted mentioned earlier) were
based precisely on what Mr. Bauer wrote? Would
anyone?