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To: Neocon who wrote (1940)	12/4/1999 11:30:00 AM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (1) of 3246

Just remembered this parable. I was pressed for time when you first posted. You make it sound rather idyllic! I'm sure she was a healthy and vigorous woman. It reminds me of a story a friend of mine told me. He and I used to go round and round on the positives and negatives of modernism. His parents came from somewhere in Eastern Europe. His father told him that when he was a boy (the father), things were fairly bucolic around their town. For excitement, the owner of the market in town would freeze a shoe in a block of ice and put it in front of his store to melt. People would walk by just to see if the shoe was out of the ice yet. As he finished telling me this, he looked at me intently and said, "Now, do you want to live in a society like that?" I had to admit that I did not.

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