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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>And the debate continues…<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> OSLIST
[mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On
Behalf Of </span></b>EVERETT813@aol.com<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Sunday, March 05, 2006 5:07
PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: A Quiet Time</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Geneva><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Geneva;color:black'>Frank wrote:<br>
<br>
"It looks like we'll never get there in that moment together... always
light years away. Personally I think that story is a depressing pile of crap
though."<br>
<br>
I was reminded by your post, Frank, of the great scene in Cyrano de Bergerac
after he has shut down the insipid play. The Comte d'Guiche is in high
dudgeon and one of his simpleton syncophantic followers says he'll put Cyrano
in his place. He goes over and says "Sir, your nose, it is rather
large". (Clearly language challenged as well as being witless.)
Cyrano proceeds to create wonderful insults about his nose, showing what the
simpleton might have said if he had an ounce of couth and wit about him.
He ends by saying "You will die exquisitely." Which he then
accomplishes, while composing a poem of specific form, ending the witless one's
life on the last refrain.<br>
<br>
As for the other posts about extreme individualism, it is a growing condition
(I maintain mental illness) of our society, manifesting in many ways. One
is the idea that if anything 'bad' happens to us, somebody is going to pay, and
pay big. Thus, hot coffee in one's lap demands tens of thousands of
dollars in recompense. There are literally dozens of similiarly assinine
examples of our legal system run amok, reflecting the mentality that
consequences shouldn't happen to me. <br>
<br>
I was deeply saddened that the woman felt it was perfectly ok to come up and
absolutely traumatize Birgitt by screaming at her because some line of the
woman's psyche had been crossed by holding hands. Had she not grasped the
law of two feet? She was clearly mentally unbalanced in doing so.
Did anyone check if the other folks there LIKED holding hands? No, of
course not. The central illness of extreme individualism is that <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>my view of the world will prevail and I will not
suffer any consequences for my choices inside that view.</span></i> It
negates the good of the whole, in my opinion. Not to mention clogs our
courts with lawsuits that increase all our insurance costs and the cost of the
goods. We want a consequence-less life for our decisions. Reality,
thy name is <i><span style='font-style:italic'>me.</span></i><br>
<br>
Paul Everett</span></font><font face=Arial FAMILY=SANSSERIF><span
style='font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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