[1426] in Central_America
New quotes for Mon Apr 17
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon Apr 17 01:23:10 1989
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 89 01:26:51 EDT
From: Initializer.SysDaemon <root@CHARON.MIT.EDU>
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
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celine (Adam Weishaupt):
yeah yeah.
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csmith (Carol J Smith):
Polar bears travel in pairs around ice floes.
You can have ice floes without bears,
but you can't have bears without ice floes.
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eichin (Mark W. Eichin):
Polar Bears travel in pairs around ice floes.
You can have ice floes without bears,
but you can't have bears without ice floes.
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lwvanels (Lucien Van Elsen):
I take a bottle of wine and I go to drink it among the flowers.
We are always three-
counting my shadow and my friend the shimmering moon.
Hapily, the moon knows knows nothing of drinking,
and my shadow is never thirsty.
When I sing, the moon listens to me in silence.
When I dance, my shadow dances too.
After all festivites, the guests must depart;
This sadness I do not know.
When I go home, the moon goes with me, and my shadow follows me.
-- Li Po
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mugambo (shippert (some call me 'tim')):
Feh.
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rosencra (Raoul Duke):
Touch me and I'll understand
We only write our names in sand.
We can stand where legend stands
If I walk the hill.
- "I Walk the Hill", Big Country, _The Seer_
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smamros (Shawn Mamros):
they sit
within the confines of their cubbyholes
along the mazelike long corridors
(they're not really infinite corridors
they just seem that way)
and make their proclamations:
"WE know what's best for them
WE know exactly what they want
WE need to separate the winners from the losers
and weed the losers out"
never mind that all who were let in
in the first place
are considered "winners" by everyone else
and no doubt were patted on the backs
by their teachers counselors parents whoever else
who said "congratulations on making it in"
and were sent off with the best of wishes
with their high standardized scores
and other marks of excellence
that's not enough for THEM
the denizens of the cubbyholes
who proclaim from on high:
"they're not doing well enough
they're not prepared
they don't conform to OUR mold
let's try an experiment
let's turn the screws a little tighter
turn the speed up on the treadmill
crank up the voltage
lower the tolerances
and see how many more losers we can catch early
in the bud
before they ruin OUR holy corridors
and if a few more of them end up leaping off the green building
well we'll jot that in our notebooks
and say `gee that's too bad
but it really isn't OUR fault'
and if the rest are turned into zombies
stripped of all emotion
(save that of blind fear
of their fates
their grades
the marks of measurement WE impose)
so much the better
they're easier to control that way"
--- End of Central America ---
