"Complicate" = "elucidate the complexity of"

[Laurence Horn]

At 2:31 PM -0400 3/23/11, victor steinbok wrote:
>I read the description a bit differently. I thought it mocked "modern
>Republicans" for a simplistic view of history. If anything, I see
>"picture" misplaced as it means "view" here. So I read the whole piece
>as a lecture designed to through a monkey wrench

I can just picture it now:

THROUGH A MONKEY WRENCH DARKLY:
Complicating the French Revolution:
History, Perception, and the Return of the Repressed

...or whatever.
;-)

LH

>  into the conservative
>perspective (modern or otherwise) of the French Revolution and
>post-revolutionary culture, rather than the review of a complicated
>perspective that these conservatives might have. It's history
>confronting perception, not an investigation of perception.
>
>VS-)
>

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