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To: nihil who wrote (29825)6/24/1999 1:06:00 PM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 71178
 
A bit of 2500-year-old humor for you, Nihil:

Diogenes (the Cynic) is knocked flat by a man carrying a beam.

The man then cries,"Look out!"

Diogenes says, "Why, are you going to hit me again?"

Maybe not the world's funniest joke, but I get a kick out of thinking that people 2500 years ago found the same things funny that we do - or at least, the Greeks did. A footnote in Aristotle's Rhetoric. Which I enjoy because he gives names and explanations for things I have puzzled out dimly on my own. Every paragraph is full of revelations - I can't read it fast.




To: nihil who wrote (29825)6/24/1999 1:10:00 PM
From: Ilaine  Respond to of 71178
 
On another topic - I would love to take classes at George Mason, but I hate sitting in the dinky little chairs. When I was at law school, the lecture halls were built like the ones you see on TV and movies, tiered, with long tables and chairs that are attached on arms and swing in and out. I like those, and I like seminar tables. But I hate dinky little chairs with attached arms. Barbaric abominations!


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