On Sat, 29 May 2004 08:20:48 -0500, Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Gary Denton wrote: > > > > On Sat, 29 May 2004 01:08:31 -0400, Damon Agretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > So again, by posting this you create an unequal and only half-story, and > > > minimize the efforts of later generations to preserve that information. > > > > I am reminded of "Alas, Babylon" which mimicked this preservation by > > having the Church canonization of a Jew and the manuscript > > illumination of his grocery shopping list by barely literate monks who > > had no clue to the works they were saving after a nuclear war. > > Er, that was _A Canticle for Leibowitz_, not _Alas, Babylon_. > > If you can't get *that* right, I'm viewing the rest of your argument > with more suspicion. I believe that Damon knows what he's talking > about; I'm not sure you do. > > I wish you better luck in persuading me of your views in the future. :) > > Julia
Ah, you are right of course, I blame the early hour and not having read both in a couple of decades. Gary "slaps his head, mutters more coffee" #1 on Google for liberal news
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