By Sean Corrigan
No purple prose this time, I promise – I wouldn’t dream of risking any
untoward interruption of your natural digestive processes – but I just came
across the little
invective (is there any other genre to which you turn your
hand?) - in which you gave full
vent to your scorn for my alleged lack of understanding of the banking system.
[Oh, and thanks for the editorial obiter dicta, but ‘fulfil’ is
correct in real English, while the OED validates my use of both
‘nominated’ and ‘incongruous’. Typos are, alas, another matter for which you
will just have to excuse one’s eternal inability properly to proof read one’s
own work. It was however very stylistically astute of you, I must say,
to exploit the frequent use of the [sic] insertion to make the subliminal
suggestion that someone who apparently could not set grammatically accurate
sentences on a page was ipso facto to be considered suspect in the
coherent thought department, too! But, let’s not be too schoolgirlish about it.
Onward to the point in hand.]
To chew over the first bone of contention and as you will not take my word
for it that banks do create deposits by lending money, let me quote you
a little Roepke from a footnote (p113) to his 1936 work, ‘Crises &
Cycles’:
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