[5450] in Central_America
New quotes for Mon May 16
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Central America)
Mon May 16 03:15:29 1994
Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 03:15:05 -0400
From: Central America <root@charon.MIT.EDU>
To: ca-mtg@charon.MIT.EDU
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jtkohl (John T Kohl):
May 16--20 is National Bike to Work week.
"Get out your bikes and ride!"
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kdmiller (Kenneth D Miller):
void main(){char b[17];int a=0,c=0,d; /* / for a good time, email: \ */
while(c!=-1){printf("%07x0:",a++);for /* ( kdmiller@athena.mit.edu ) */
(d=0;d<16;d++){c=getchar();b[d]=(c<' ' /* \ (Kenneth D. Miller III) / */
||c>'~')?'.':c;printf( "%s%02x",d&3?"":" ",c&255);}printf(" | %s\n",b);}}
Yes!! I'm online! Just use 'kdmiller@vongole.mit.edu'...
I've been on since Sun May 15 22:35:56 EDT 1994
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sethg (Seth A Gordon):
"the book of Ruth, an idle, bungling story, foolishly told, nobody
knows by whom, about a strolling country girl, creeping slyly to be
with her cousin Boaz. Pretty stuff indeed, to be called the Word of
God! It is however, one of the best books in the Bible, for it is
free of murder and rapine." --Thomas Paine, _The Age of Reason_
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sorokin (Jessie Stickgold-Sarah):
Comparative Histories: Our Stories
Kate Rushin
When I look into your face
I swear I see Russia and Rumania
I see thousands of faces looking out from your eyes
I see a peasant woman
Her legs strong from the fields
Drinking tea by the stove
I see a man leaning over his heavy book
I see a young girl laughing from deep in her belly
I see them
I see Molly, Rachel, Goldie and Flora
I see Harry, Albert, Carl and Ben
And when I look at you
I feel my own people gazing out from my eyes
Look and you will see a bondswoman
Her legs strong from the fields
Drinking tea by the hearth
Look and see a man rocking over his heavy book
See a young girl laughing from way deep in her belly
Look and you can see the Ashanti, the Bambara, the Fulani
You can see Mamie, Ama, Akiba and Snow Pearl
You can see Walter, Kojo, Moses and Ned
Thousands of people stretch out behind us
Like the cars of a freight
And when I look at you
I feel my own people gazing out from my eyes
Look and you will see a bondswoman
Her legs strong from the fields
Drinking tea by the hearth
Look and see a man rocking over his heavy book
See a young girl laughing from way deep in her belly
Look and you can see the Ashanti, the Bambara, the Fulani
You can see Mamie, Ama, Akiba and Snow Pearl
You can see Walter, Kojo, Moses and Ned
Thousands of people stretch out behind us
Like the cars of a freight
How do we compare
The Final Solution, The Peculiar Institution
The Slave Ship, The Death Train
The Gas Chamber, The Lynching Tree
The Amistadt Revolt, The Warsaw Uprising
The Burned Book, The Smashed Drum
Bergen-Belsen and Cape Coast Castle
Do we dare compare our terrible histories
It would have been easy for neither of us to be here
If someone had stayed a day too long...
If someone had left a day too soon...
But here we are
Meeting by chance
As people do
The daughter of Marilyn and Birdie, Sol and Jack
The daughter of Roxie and Addie, George and Issac
Here we are
To witness the dead
And the living
In each other's eyes
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therese (Therese):
Our written history is a catalogue of crime
The sordid and the powerful, the architects of time
The mother of invention, the oppression of the mild
The constant fear of scarcity, aggression as it's child
-- Sting
Dream of the Blue Turtles
--- End of Central America ---
