http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiresias
How Tiresias obtained his information varied: sometimes, like the oracles, he would receive visions; other times he would listen for the songs of birds, or ask for a description of visions and pictures appearing within the smoke of burnt offerings, and so interpret them. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Spencer Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 1:02 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Futurework] Capitalism is killing our morals, our future - MarketWatch me> Arthur wrote: me> me>> I don't perceive professor Krugman as a whiner but more as a me>> Cassandra. me> me> That's my perception, too. REH> Actually REH wrote that. Ummmmm.... Lemme see here...Ooop, right. Sorry. So I missed Arthur's squib, too, which was to follow your above-misattributed remark with: Arthur> Yes someone who can't get enough of the spotlight. So Krugman is a sort of prima donna? Hogging the spotlight, upstaging the other figures in the drama? Well, I dunno. If he just put out stuff equitably reasoned in the highly qualified propositions and tentative hypotheses of an academic paper on economics, most people, even readers of the NYT, would never wade through it. At least he writes readable prose, readable enough to merit criticism. Better than extemporaneous rants posted to U-tube. Afterthought: Maybe Krugman is more like Tiresias than Cassandra. - Mike -- Michael Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada .~. /V\ [email protected] /( )\ http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/ ^^-^^ _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
