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To: Solon who wrote (51001)	6/14/2002 3:35:49 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Egad, you don't know Charles Addams? You should go immediately to your library and grab a book of his. He's the cartoonist who created the family on which the TV show The Addams Family was based. He is a much more sophisticated, IMO, precursor of Gary Larson, whose work I also love. Unfortunately, the Addams estate has apparently requested that none of his cartoons appear on the internet, so I can't steer you to any samples of his work to whet your appetite. Suffice it to say that if you like Poe, I can't believe but that you would like Addams.

To: Solon who wrote (51001)	6/14/2002 3:45:10 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Reading the Poe page you linked to, I came across this wonderful anecdote, which I hadn't heard before: "We may also remember Laplace's remark that Newton was not only the smartest man who ever lived, he was also the luckiest, because there is, and will always be, only one universe, and it has only one system of laws, and Newton was the one human being privileged to discover those laws. What does that leave for the rest of us?" Of course, we now know that there is more than one universe. Now we have to wonder whether there is only one system of laws, or whether different universes have different systems of laws.