[1489] in Central_America
New quotes for Fri May 12
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Fri May 12 01:37:11 1989
Date: Fri, 12 May 89 01:37:25 EDT
From: Initializer.SysDaemon <root@CHARON.MIT.EDU>
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
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capsalad (Dave Schulman):
Death speaks:
There was a merchant who lived in Baghdad, who one day sent his
servant to the marketplace to purchase some provisions. In the
marketplace, the servant was jostled by a woman in the crowd. When he
turned, he saw that it was Death that had jostled him. She seemed to make
threatening motions toward him. He ran back to his master, white-faced
and trembling. He said, "Master, I met Death at the marketplace, who
jostled me and made threatening gestures toward me. Please, lend me your
horse, and I will ride to Samarra and so escape my fate." The master
agreed, and the servant dug his heels into the horse's sides and rode away
as fast as the horse could gallop. The merchant then went to the
marketplace and found me. He asked, "Why did you make threatening
gestures at my servant today?" I replied, "That was not a threatening
gesture. I only started with surprise and astonishment when I saw him
today in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra."
- W. Somerset Maugham
from the prologue to _Appointment in Samarra_
by John O' Hara (paraphrased from memory)
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celine (Robert Fullmer):
I had a plan.
When I was very young, I learned to avoid pain.
At some point, it became apparent that pain is everywhere, and
any effort to shun it would be unsuccessful.
Though I would have never planned it, I ended up a masochist.
Later in life, I made a plan to avoid boredom.
After not too long I realized that such a plan was doomed to fail.
I learned to appreciate the finer points of boredom.
Now my plan is to not make any more plans.
How will this one do, I wonder.
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jmh (J Michael Hammond):
PhysMail: 11510 S. 39th St. #19
Omaha, NE 68123-1224
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"Father taught me two things. 'Mind own business' and
'Always cut cards.'" --Manuel, in "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress"
by Heinlein.
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"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."
--Hunter S. Thompson
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mead (Peter A. Mead):
16 April: Away! Away!
The spell of arms and voices: the white arms of roads, their promise
of close embraces and the black arms of tall ships that stand against
the moon, their tale of distant nations. They are held out to say:
We are alone. Come. And the voices say with them: We are your
kinsmen. And the air is thick with their company as they call to me,
their kinsman, making ready to go, shaking the wings of their exultant
and terrible youth.
26 April: Mother is putting my new secondhand clothes in order. She
prays now, she says, that I may learn in my own life and away from
home and friends what the heart is and what it feels. Amen. So be
it. Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the
reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the
uncreated conscience of my race.
27 April: Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good
stead.
-- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
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michon (Brian V Michon):
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tewks (John C Tewksbury):
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