[943] in Central_America
New quotes for Mon Sep 26
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon Sep 26 01:27:19 1988
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 88 01:27:41 EDT
From: Initializer.SysDaemon <root@CHARON.MIT.EDU>
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
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aaron (Aaron A. Goodisman):
...
There was the day when I began to doubt
Man's sanity: How could he live without
Knowing for sure what dawn, what death, what doom
Awaited consciousness beyond the tomb?
...
... Yet, if prior to life we had
Been able to imagine life, what mad,
Impossible, unutterably weird,
Wonderful nonsense it might have appeared!
So why join in the vulgar laughter? Why
Score a hearafter none can verify:
The Turk's delight, the future lyres, the talks
With Socrates and Proust in cypress walks,
The seraph with hs six flamingo wings,
And Flemish hells with porcupines and things?
It isn't that we dream too wild a dream:
The trouble is we do not make it seem
Sufficiently unlikely; for the most
We can think up is a domestic ghost.
...
Life is a message scribbled in the dark.
Anonymous.
Espied on a pine's bark.
...
From _Pale Fire_ (the poem)
by John Shade (the character)
From _Pale Fire_ (the book)
by Vladimir Nabakov (the author)
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amgreene (Rhu Greene):
``Eine solche Tante wie diese Tante noch keine Nichte Tante nannte.''
``For heaven's sake. It's him. Only a tenor could be so stupid as to
compromise me in front of my own house.''
- Die Fledermaus (No, one is not the translation of the other.
The first quote isn't funny, just neat to say.)
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eichin (Mark W. Eichin):
>From: super!rminnich@uunet.uu.net (Ronald G Minnich)
>... If i had to compare NeWS to an OS, i would compare
>it to the Apollo Domain system or Multics, which are technically superior but
>have also remained vendor-specific and hence something of a niche system.
> I think the analogy that really holds is Unix --> X11, Multics --> NeWS.
>And we all know which OS 'won' in the sense of being 'universal'.
>We also have a pretty good idea which is better, i think ...
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jik (Jonathan I. Kamens):
Closely paraphrased without permission from, "To Err is Reagan..."
"Nineteen brave men died during the Grenada rescue, serving their
country and the cause of freedom. One of them was Sean Luketina....A
few months agto, Sean died of his wounds. But he...gave his life in
the cause of freedom. He did not die in vain." (First anniversary of
Grenada action, 10/24/84)
Two days later the Washington Post reported that Luketina had died
from wounds suffered when a U.S. Navy aircraft mistakenly fired on the
paratrooper's command post. (Washington Post, 10/26/84)
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jtkohl (John T Kohl):
Paranoia.
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thetans (Epsilon Theta):
I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you
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