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To: Ilaine who wrote (123665)	1/25/2004 3:49:01 AM
From: smolejv@gmx.net	Respond to of 281500

Hi CB - you gave me a few names I have to read into - my list is so darn long ... there's Thoreau there somewhere down the middle and Im adding Tom Paine and Locke... From my side, the story of the Pied Piper has been replaying in my mind, as Gunther Grass painted it with powerful strokes in his Tin Drum (Hilter as the Rat Catcher of Hammeln - Fact is I always end up sooner or later in art), I mean >>The wise men will persuade the foolish men, rather than vice versa.<< or they will play the charmed tune and the glassy-eyed weak will follow the Pied Piper into their perdition. For extremes see Hassan ibn Sabbah. But the question "what can one do?" - you asked it and answered yourself already. And I of course agree.