[5732] in Central_America
New quotes for Mon Jan 9
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Central America)
Mon Jan 9 03:35:48 1995
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 1995 03:35:18 -0500
From: Central America <root@charon.MIT.EDU>
To: ca-mtg@charon.MIT.EDU
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airhead (Mark Hochberg):
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jimg (James R Goodman):
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loupapas (Achillefs Papadimitriou):
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mhuang (Mark Lee Huang):
. . "Life is hard and then you die,
... :``..': Life is short and so am I."
: ````.' :''::'
..:.. : .'' : --The Reverend Will B. Dunn
``. `: .' :
: : : : "What is the meaning of true happiness?
: : : : Is it money, cars, and women? Or is it
: : : : just money and cars?"
: : :..''''``::.
:...:..' .'' --Calvin
.' .' .::::'
:..'''``::::::: "When you and I our love shall part
' `:::: "Shall leave a blot in both our hearts
`::. "I to the silent grave shall go, and
`:: "Sleep my last as others do.
:::. "All this, my love, I want to say, but
..:```.:'`. ::'`. "Night doth call, and I obey.
..' `:.: :: "With meditation read these lines;
.: .:``::: "You will in them a question find.
.: ..'' ::: "Sweet is the question; mind it well.
: .'' .:: "Heart to heart, so fare thee well!"
: .'`::
--19th century Victorian poem
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rjbarbal (Richard J. P. Barbalace):
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therese (Therese):
One day in a nuclear age
they may understand our rage
They build machines that they can't control
And bury the waste in a great big hole
Power was to become cheap and clean
Grimy faces were never seen
But deadly for twelve thousand years is
carbon fourteen
We work the black seam together
- Sting
Dream of the Blue Turtles
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yandros (Chad Phillip Brown):
Hmm. I should start putting stuff in my .plan file again.
--
(from a mailing list I'm on)
"Well, science is the theology of our times, and like the old theology
it's a muddle of conflicting assertions. What gripes my gut is that is
has such a miserable vocabulary and such a pallid pack of images to
offer to us -- to the humble laity -- for our edification and our
faith. The old priest in his black robe gave us things that seemed to
have concrete existence; you prayed to the Mother of God and somebody
had given you an image that looked just right for the Mother of God.
The new priest in his whitish lab-coat gives you nothing at all except
a constantly changing vocabulary which he -- because he usually doesn't
know any Greek -- can't pronounce, and you are expected to trust him
implicitly because he knows what you are too dumb to comprehend. It's
the most overweening, pompous priesthood mankind has ever endured in
all its recorded history, and its lack of symbol and metaphor and its
zeal for abstraction drive mankind to a barren land of starved
imagination."
-- Simon Darcourt, in Robertson Davies' "What's Bred in the Bone"
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