"Complicate" = "elucidate the complexity of"

[Joel S. Berson]

At 3/23/2011 04:36 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>At 1:55 PM -0400 3/23/11, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>>The book I remember (I couldn't read the whole thing) is filled with
>>distracting postmodernist puns and weighty (par)en(theses).
>>
>>That would be enough to alienate this reader, whatever its other qualities.
>>
>>If I'm in error, I apologize to Prof. Lepore.
>
>If Lepore's book on the Tea Party's rewriting of American History is
>anything like her piece on the topic in a recent New Yorker, there's
>nothing particularly postmodern or transgressive about it that I
>could see.

I'm a bit confused now.  I thought Jon's comment was about a book
implicating (see, I can use post-modernist jargon too, although
probably badly) the Puritans, not her very recent Tea Party book.

Joel

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