The Problem With Writing, Not Face to Face Meetings

i very much regret the tone i took in this exchange, and i'm very happy we got a chance to have a face to face conversation and sort things out. And it would be disingenuous of me not to notice how your prickliness in preening appears. You write as one protecting his academic turf behind. And between almost every word of your essay, like some toxic background radiation, one detects an explosion of professorial vanity. So that's how snide things got. And i must say, this is really a problem with writing, rather than having to face to face encounter. I don't think we resolved all the philosophical issues we spoke for nearly two hours, but there were several