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To: Rambi who wrote (3134)3/12/1999 8:13:00 PM
From: Volsi Mimir  Respond to of 13018
 
Man dies, his body is dust,
.......his family all brought low to earth;
But writing shall make him remembered,
.......alive in the mouths of any who read.
Better a book than a builded mansion,
.......better than body's home in the West,
Splendid above a fine house in the country
.......or stone-carved deeds in the precinct of God

Papyrus- hieroglyphic writing
ca. 1300- 1100 B.C.

Chester Beatty IV gift to the British Museum
translated by John L Foster-University of Oklahoma



To: Rambi who wrote (3134)3/13/1999 12:48:00 AM
From: Volsi Mimir  Respond to of 13018
 
women have the brains........
Ben was an intellectual,
and intellectuals, (say what you like)
seemed to last longer than anyone else.


Muriel Spark
The Fathers Daughter
Voices at Play
1961

[i have the best double digit IQ you can possibly have-
89] yep.

from Charlotte Bronte
Had I been anything inferior to him, he would
not have hated me so thoroughly, but I knew all
that he knew, and, what was worse, he suspected
that I kept the padlock of silence on mental wealth
in which he was no sharer.

[women...........they are between this:]
"The most wasteful 'brain drain' in America today
is the drain in the kitchen sink"
Liz Davis

[or this:]

"I have a brain and a uterus, and I use both"
Patricia Schrodeder
'Anatomy Isn't Destiny'
1977


[frankly I like these:]-(unless your the girl friend of one of those WWF fiends)
"I was elected by the women of Ireland,
who instead of rocking the cradle,
rocked the system."
Mary Robinson-elected 1990-somewhere in Ireland
its soomewhere i've been reading about--- Got some great Gaelic stuff ......later


[go girl- peace is a non dominational?--(i aint got no religion so how do you say everyone is invited) process- lets bury that evil in my lifetime]
sorry- Too much of M'sieur Gibley's and Ms. Merlot
G'nite.