[5061] in Central_America
New quotes for Wed Aug 18
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Central America)
Wed Aug 18 05:28:16 1993
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 93 05:27:53 -0400
From: Central America <root@charon.MIT.EDU>
To: ca-mtg@charon.MIT.EDU
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clewis (Chad K. Lewis):
My parents taught me a different lesson...
--lying on the street--shaking in deep shock--
--dying for no reason at all--
-- they showed me that the world only
makes sense when you force it to ...
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genoa (Jack Holt):
A Blessing
Just off the highway to Rochester, Minnesota,
Twilight bounds softly forth on the grass.
And the eyes of those two Indian ponies
Darken with kindness.
They have come gladly out of the willows
To welcome my friend and me.
We step over the barbed wire into the pasture
Where they have been grazing all day, alone.
They ripple tensely, they can hardly contain their happiness
That we have come.
They bow shyly as wet swans. They love each other.
There is no loneliness like theirs.
At home once more,
They begin munching the young tufts of spring in the darkness.
I would like to hold the slenderer one in my arms,
For she has walked over to me
And nuzzled my left hand.
She is black and white,
Her mane falls wild on her forehead,
And the light breeze moves me to caress her long ear
That is delicate as the skin over a girl's wrist.
Suddenly I realize
That if I stepped out of my body I would break
Into blossom.
--James Wright
- * - * - * -
On September 7th, I'll be running off to Arizona.
Those who want to stay in touch, my address will be:
1131 Sunrise Drive
Clarkdale, AZ 86324
(602) 634-8528
I'm still working on net access...
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hch (Hernando Cortina):
.. bleakness.... desolation.... plastic forks...
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proven (Chris Provenzano):
To get a real job. Compu$erve turned out to be a fake job in a fake city
somewhere in the middle of a fake state.
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Write a portable thread package with some really spiffy features, and then
thread the world.
Run a real operating system on my portable 386 box. Current real operating
systems include...
Plan 9
4.4 BSD
POS (Whenever I finish it.)
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rjbarbal (Richard J. Barbalace):
I've moved out of TEP. Starting in September I will be living at
26 Fairmont Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
I will be home in Philadelphia for the next two weeks, before
returning to register as an authentic MIT student. Yes!!!!!!
In case of an emergency, please call someone else, but here's
my Philly number just in case:
(215) 743-6478
Take care.
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You know I'd sooner forget but I remember those nights
When life was just a bet on a race between the lights.
You had your head on my shoulder, you had your hand in my hair,
Now you act a little colder like you don't seem to care...
But believe in me baby and I'll take you away
From out of this darkness and into the day,
From these rivers of headlights, these rivers of rain,
From the anger that lives on the streets with these names
'Cause I've run every red light on memory lane.
I've seen desperation explode into flames
and I don't wanna see it again...
- "Telegraph Road", Dire Straits
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Do you recall the day, I first came your way
And I had to know you
When you stepped in the way
And I smiled at you
Though I never meant to?
Hadn't thought about it
For a long, long time
But still she's here inside me
Never off my mind.
I try to hide it from you, but you know
And I hear it over and over again.
You can talk about tomorrow.
All your talkin' doesn't mean a thing.
All our yesterdays are sorrow.
Can't stop remembering.
I hear it over and over again.
I hear it over and over and over and over again.
- "Over and Over Again", Smithereens
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When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,
And look upon myself and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featured like him, like him with friends possessed,
Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least;
Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,
Haply I think on thee - and then my state,
Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate;
For thy sweet love remembered, such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
- William Shakespeare
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"I can't understand you. Do you mean to say that
you...have let him live on after all those horrible deeds?
Now at any rate he is as bad as an Orc, and just an enemy.
He deserves death."
"Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live
deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you
give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death
in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends."
- "The Fellowship of the Ring", J.R.R. Tolkien
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starflt (Derrick Kong):
Spirit of '76
The Pennsylvania Bicentennial Commission had second thoughts about its
plan to invite citizens to rededicate themselves to American ideals by
signing copies of the Declaration of Independence. "If you sit down and
read it," said George Ebner, the commission's executive director,
"you'll find it's a pretty revolutionary document. There may be a lot
of people unwilling to sign it."
from No Comment
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