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To: Neocon who wrote (105392)	12/8/2000 12:13:02 PM
From: gao seng	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

"SlaughterHouse Five" Saw the movie, haven't read the book. T.S. Elliot, Nobel Prize Winner jhubble.terrashare.com Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air: And like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd tow'rs, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great glove itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. --Shakespeare's The Tempest Act 4, Scene 1, 148-158 Sartre's most popular play is undoubtedly the one-act drama No Exit (1944; Eng. trans., 1947), which is a discussion of such familiar negative existentialist themes as bad faith, self-destruction, and the impossibility of interpersonal relationships. It is in this play that Sartre's famous line, "Hell is other people," occurs. According to Aristotle, "All men by nature desire to know." The applicability of Aristotle's observation to all humans is questionable, but he does identify the distinguishing characteristic of scholars. Francis Bacon observed that "Knowledge is power." The thesis Said defends in Orientalism, the conjunction of Aristotle's and Bacon's propositions, seems to be "All men by nature desire to know in order to acquire power." I do not concur with this thesis: although the results of scholarship certainly can be used to facilitate domination, I do not believe domination of others is the objective of scholarship. If indeed power and domination have a necessary relationship to knowledge, then I suggest it is simply a matter of the knower having power over what is known. home.pacbell.net -- Political Science No one likes us - I don't know why We may not be perfect, but heaven knows we try But all around even our old friends put us down Let's drop the big one and see what happens We give them money - But are they grateful No, they're spiteful and they're hateful They don't respect us - so let's surprise them We'll drop the big one and pulverize them Asia's crowded and Europe's too old Africa is far too hot And Canada is too cold And South America stole our name Let's drop the big one There'll be no one to blame us We'll save Australia Don't wanna hurt no kangaroo We'll build an all American amusement park there They got surfing too Boom goes London and boom Paree More room for you and more room for me And every city the whole world round Will just be another American town Oh how peaceful it will be We'll set everybody free You'll wear a Japanese kimono And there'll be Italian shoes for me They all hate us any how So let's drop the big one now Let's drop the big one now poem of Randy Newman: -- Can't find last one. Some of my favorite Sharespeare's: Some men need adversity to shape them; others respond to shapes adversely, especially in cases where shapes are unseen. -- The Suppressed First Draft on Shakespeare's "Hamlet" Clo. Cannot you tell that? euery foole can tell that: It was the very day, that young Hamlet was borne, hee that was mad, and sent into England. Ham. I marry, why was he sent into England? Clo. Why, because he was mad; hee shall recouer his wits there; or if he do not, it's no great matter there. Ham. Why? Clo. 'Twill not be seene in him, there the men are as mad as he.

To: Neocon who wrote (105392)	12/8/2000 12:24:14 PM
From: TH	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

"Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time." Sure SH5 is his best known, but "Breakfast of Champions" is my personal favorite. I have been describing crazy people as "those with bad chemicals in their brain" ever since. Really love his short stories too. Equal in my opinion to those very forward thinking ones written by Bradbury in the 50's and 60's. At the end of my first year of college, I was sitting in the library reading something, and the snorkle jacket dude came up and took the seat next to me. I had seen the snorkle jacket (a heavy winter coat with a hood that pretty much covers your entire head, probably a local term) dude many times but never had occasion to speak to him. He never took that jacket off regardless of the weather. Anyway he turned me on to Kurt. He insisted that I read him now. I ended up reading them all. I never got a chance to thank him. HAGO TH