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Blast from the past....

tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Feb 20 02:24:00 1990

It's always fun to go back through old discuss meetings.... while doing
this, I found this gem....

>As near as I can tell, though, it doesn't matter where you are, whom you
>know, or what you do, because everyone's already got someone else anyway.
>The chances of meeting someone to whom you are attracted is low enough
>already; the chances of that person a) being attracted to you, and b)
>being between relationships works out to a microscopically small number.
>Since you're going to have to wait a long time, you may as well get used
>to it.  There's a good play about waiting by Samual Beckett...

Neat, huh?  Does anyone remember who wrote it?  :-)  [Does anybody want
to claim credit? :-) :-)]


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