Re: virus: education and the state

Brett Lane Robertson (unameit@tctc.com)
Fri, 17 Oct 1997 16:28:18 -0500

At 02:30 PM 10/17/97 -0400, you wrote:
>> > > SAGAN IS RIGHT NOW--THAT IS ANYBODY'S GUESS. But, as I asked the
>> > > Nateman, if Sagan is in hell, do you suppose it is billions and
>> > > billions and billions of degrees there? Chardin
>> > If my toe was a song, how loud would it be?
>> > -paul
>> >
>> Paul, I'm obivously not intellectual enough for that one. Is there a
>> great truth here? If so, kindly share. Chardin
>No great truths. I just felt that both were examples of asking someone to
>logically consider a question for which there could be no definite answer.
>I assumed you were joking, were you not?
>
>as an aside,
> I wonder how many of our subject lines actually fit the topic within?
>

Any takers on the idea that the subject line is a meme for the statements
within? (can someone "logically consider a question for which there could be
no definite answer" is the behavior elicited by the "education and the
state" meme).

There may be a research topic here!

Brett

Returning,
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Rabble Sonnet Retort
Magpie, n.:
A bird whose theivish disposition suggested to someone that
it might be taught to talk.

Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"