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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (78220)	10/22/2003 6:28:17 PM
From: Solon	Respond to of 82486

Obviously, order is only an appraisal. What do we mean by order anyway? That something over there is not here? That things are separated by space? That something is not something else? That grass is grass, mud is mud, and a tight turn to the right is a circle?

To: Lane3 who wrote (78220)	10/22/2003 6:53:31 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Oh forgot to mention in last post, after the Salzman, I read a very interesting book on race relations, called The Fall of Rome- fascinating book. Moves way beyond old fashioned notions of race, into a world where the racial ideas of two black men collide. Then I started Being Dead. Now I don't know if you would like this book, but it is so good, and so unusual, I want to mention it. It's about two corpses, we know them for just a teeny bit before they are corpses, and then we take a journey with them as they lie, where they lie, decomposing. It sounds a bit ghoulish, it IS a bit ghoulish, but it's also original and interesting. I read a bit of it to one of my classes, a less scary part, and a less gross out part, about a little beetle who is first to the scene, and is actually a grass beetles, so he is annoyed by a corpse falling on him, since he is programmed to eat in the sun, and he has to dig his way out from under the corpse, and gets caught for a bit in the wooly sweater it is wearing. Anyway, fascinating reading, and perfect for Halloween, really.