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To: jbe who wrote (37749)	5/10/1999 2:07:00 PM
From: Chuzzlewit	Respond to of 108807

Joan, I was undoubtedly defending the losing end of an unwinnable argument. I suppose what I am really trying to get at is that we need a common base of knowledge as our launching point. The comment about Freud was not inspired by his being correct, but by his stripping away the last vestiges of romanticism with regard to childhood sexuality. In any case, I give up. Uncle! TTFN, CTC Edit: but wouldn't you concede that reading Origin of Species might be a tad bit more important than reading David Copperfield?

To: jbe who wrote (37749)	5/10/1999 3:43:00 PM
From: nihil	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

What about great books that would have affected history but unfortunately were never written. My favorites are Jesus's Memoirs of a Wayward Son and Mary's My Son, The Messiah!. I think it would have been devastating to Christianity if Newton had published Why I am Not a Christian. or if Clement VII had written the bull Maria Tudorensis et Isabella Tudorensis illegitimis sunt. Suppose Plato's Homosexuality is Best for Priests and Sappho's Sisterhood is Potent: An Enchiridion had been available in paperback. Suppose Eratosthenes How to Print Greek Texts from Hand-Carved Wooden Plates had the sale it ought to have had or Ezra's expose: The Temple Law Hoax! had been able to afford a book-signing tour through the diaspora. Finally, suppose Machiavelli's Discourses had the size and sale of the The Prince, or that the only copy of Marcus's To Himself had been published as How to Be Happy Though an Emperor in a cheap edition (with a faux suede cover, and a red rayon place marker).