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Nighttrain
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Message 1 of 8 (45728)
07-11-2003 1:12 AM


Let`s trust ne`er the twain shall meet
http://pub45.ezboard.com/fwastelandofwondersfrm4.showMessage

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mark24
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Message 2 of 8 (45730)
07-11-2003 3:31 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by Nighttrain
07-11-2003 1:12 AM


Oh no. There's two of them. Let's hope one isn't female.....

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MrHambre
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Message 3 of 8 (45739)
07-11-2003 9:20 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by Nighttrain
07-11-2003 1:12 AM


Qu locura!
How encouraging that Brad McF has a soulmate. What's Brad's first language, by the way? I particularly like how his amigo provides dates and background on his names dropped:
quote:
Georges Henri Lematre (1894-1966), priest and Belgian mathematician, born in Charleroi and professor of and in the university of Lovaina
Brush up on the Spanglish, old boy.
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Quien busca, halla

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Brad McFall
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Message 4 of 8 (45758)
07-11-2003 3:20 PM


bRAd
That's what you guy's really% think I sound like?
Well then I have a lot more teaching to do. I much more conservative and traditional.
LOOK ON CHARLIE ROSE, they have a black background too only it is TV not computers... and Watson was on last night and said society ought be after TRUTH after he said prayer wont work and only knowledge, look again, this time on Janent Partial's America where she will often be heard refering to Carl Sagan (I saw him ask a question in the AD White House and I was taken aback at his lack of sophistication when confronted by humanists)as remanding to know. Listen we all want more knowledge but Rose could not understand the more liberal scientists than Watson that Watson was THINKING about and really all of this inability to understand one another as to truth only has to do with who is has more $, say Watson or Bill Gates or Brad (the other one...).
The money thing is a recent developement and until we sort out global economics it will continue to be for which rather than NOT knowing, which Watson cHOSE it is better as far as I know to Pray and not to prey in the popularization of science to which c/e is largely at and a play about to...
Some of my posts ARE constructive but other instructive when not simply of some other themematic and I guess becuase I have never tried to sort out this difference you all thought you could make a run at my work being all with words in English even if it is not appropos.

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Message 5 of 8 (48676)
08-04-2003 7:11 PM
Reply to: Message 4 by Brad McFall
07-11-2003 3:20 PM


Re: bRAd
OK, I always write in E-Prime but I will have to break almost 3 years of discipline and ask you this:
"Are you the resurrected spirit of James Joyce?"

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Brad McFall
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Message 6 of 8 (52388)
08-26-2003 5:52 PM
Reply to: Message 5 by Agent Uranium [GPC]
08-04-2003 7:11 PM


Re: bRAd
depends on if we can appraoch an IDEAL or not. I do think ring theory is relevant but no- I am not dreaming this. )

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mark24
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Message 7 of 8 (52550)
08-27-2003 7:42 PM
Reply to: Message 5 by Agent Uranium [GPC]
08-04-2003 7:11 PM


Re: bRAd
Agent,
Ain't that the truth! Have you ever tried to read Finnegans Wake? Absolutely impossible. That some people think it is a classic is astounding. I'm going to varnish my next poo & sell it as art. Mr Joyce managed it, why not me?
Mark

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MrHambre
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Message 8 of 8 (52569)
08-27-2003 10:34 PM
Reply to: Message 7 by mark24
08-27-2003 7:42 PM


Here Comes Everybody
While in college, I became dangerously enamored of Finnegans Wake. I had been tricked by otherwise reputable folks like Ellmann and Burgess into thinking it was something other than the literary wanking of a modernist master running short of real inspiration, and I could only get 5% of what was going on even with the aid of annotation books aplenty. It turns out not much was going on. For all the mirth and musicality, there was precious little in the way of characters amid the philosophical constructs and symbols. And it's easy to make a multilingual pun, folks, watch: day loose, d luz, des lus, geddit? Me neither.
Years later, I read Ulysses and was so astounded by the book that I regretted having wasted all that time with the Wake. It had characters, it was profound, comical, and rewarding. Pumped full of literary valor after the triumph, I attempted the Wake once more, but it was every bit as opaque and insufferable as ever.
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I would not let the chickens cross the antidote road because I was already hospitlized for trying to say this!-Brad McFall

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