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To: Cogito who wrote (84177)	9/14/2008 12:09:18 AM
From: biotech_bull	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 544178

>>I am often puzzled by this last group - the logical inconsistency of accepting the possibility of a Hamlet without a Shakespeare or the string Quartet without a Beethoven!<< I don't think anyone imagines such a thing. Allen, Actually it's almost a direct quote from Virginia Woolf's A sektch of the Past. I refrained from stating that as I was responding to Stan and a bit leery of the line from Blazing Saddles hurled at me ;-) She came very close to nailing it all down when she said "behind the cotton wool of daily life, moments of non-being, the fragmented nature of existence, beneath the everyday moments of non-being there exists a pattern - something which unites everything." She found a theme, a pattern recurring...like music, but couldn't bring herself to make the final leap. It's not mystic or magical if one recognizes the underlying pattern BB