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There are multiple time dimensions. .…
19 Mar 2009, 06:19
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Events along your future timeline can throw echos into the past. For me, I had hallucinations from a very early age (many years before reading TBOTNS) that aliens would take me off…
19 Mar 2009, 05:24
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No, Talos (or Wolfe) meant that pretty literally. We discussed this when Wolfe and met in the mid 80's. John Cramer was also present. Gene and I found that we agreed that time was …
19 Mar 2009, 05:02
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Besides, you are going to have to save something for Obama, when the Afghan war is entering its tenth year there, a little bit down the line there. Remember, this is a guy whose h…
18 Mar 2009, 21:42
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It's like Berkeley being a nuclear free zone. No nuclear reactors in Berkeley! Except for the two or three they got at the various physics schools at the University.... .…
18 Mar 2009, 21:38
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All that occurs is according to the Will of God. God is merciful, compassionate. .…
18 Mar 2009, 19:04
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Use of past tense noted. He wasn't smart enough not to get involved in a Ponzi scheme. I liked him deciding to be a good Jew about it and come clean. If he hadn't, you know, they…
18 Mar 2009, 18:46
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Yes, well, if you are going to be living in the city, you have to safegaurd your property. If that means a walk-in gun safe built into the house, that is what it means. All sorts …
18 Mar 2009, 18:40
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There's these pre-adolescent girl scat S&M scenes which some people might find erotic. Not that I want to hang around any of those people. .…
18 Mar 2009, 18:37
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Believe me, I did not forget Pynchon. .…
18 Mar 2009, 18:26
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I believe that the conversation has broken down because one of the participants was having bad emotions which interfered with his or her clear thought and caused him or her to act …
18 Mar 2009, 18:25
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Of course criminals, by definition, aren't very bright, but why would one choose to break into a house where one knew that the residents were armed? Even if you went with overwhelm…
18 Mar 2009, 18:17
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I prefer my interpretation: turn one cheek one time, then do what needs to be done to the bastard, and may God have mercy on his soul. .…
18 Mar 2009, 17:59
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As I say, Mrs Carter's translation is not the best. I'd be happy to discuss this with you, off-list if you prefer, if you'd like to go into some detail.... .…
18 Mar 2009, 17:55
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Best living writer in the American dialect of English. McCarthy and Crowley can be said to be in his class. .…
18 Mar 2009, 17:44
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Oh I am certainly arrogant. One out of how-many-I-forget is not too bad. Some things are under your control, and some things are not. Whether or not I mail you is not under your c…
18 Mar 2009, 17:05
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18 Mar 2009, 17:03
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It's not a happy ending. That wouldn't be appropriate. It is a glorious ending. .…
18 Mar 2009, 17:01
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It's sort of funny, but it doesn't really hold up. You see, guns do give you a measure of control over things that are external to you. Not very fine control, true.…
18 Mar 2009, 17:01
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Remarkable, though I suppose not unsurprising. Ah well, were you able to accept it you might find it useful. As it is I suppose you will have to go through life having bad emotion…
18 Mar 2009, 16:54
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They are not incredibly useful weapons. They are very useful for off-planet construction projects. I can make you a device, for a couple of thousand dollars, that should yield as…
18 Mar 2009, 16:36
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This is Wolfe, Dan'l, like it or not. .…
18 Mar 2009, 16:28
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Or that one with the near-future woods bum who needs a new hunting rifle and goes on a reality show that puts tv cameras in his head and a $100,000, which the Feds want, of course.…
18 Mar 2009, 16:19
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No doubt about that. Sort of a pity in a way. .…
18 Mar 2009, 16:15
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Indeed, at the core of it, that is a very large part of it. Not necessarily racist: classist or regionalist or what have you. It's about disarming the portion of the citizenry whic…
18 Mar 2009, 16:11
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The world is divided into two sorts of people: those who like to manage the affairs of others and those who do not. In your opinion. In mine it has been a reasonably good natured …
18 Mar 2009, 16:09
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Thank you. I have been making good progress these last few years. 52 next Walpurgisnacht, Fidel. Put it back in your pants. .…
18 Mar 2009, 14:01
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I would have said, maybe, twenty-five. No surprise there. Really? What is your evidence for this? How many armed revolts have been 'quashed' in the past hundred years or so? The…
18 Mar 2009, 13:57
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That's a surprise. So why do you want to pass laws against them? It would be terribly inconvenient for me and a lot of other people. You don't like me or something? You got beef? …
18 Mar 2009, 13:46
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Indeed. Are you trying to talk gangsta? I don't think it is quite like that. .…
18 Mar 2009, 12:32
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I am sorry, you are misusing the term 'passive aggressive'. It does not mean what you think it means. ___ Passive-aggressive behavior is passive, sometimes obstructionist resistan…
18 Mar 2009, 12:29
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Well yes, Prim Tim. They are not privately owned. They are owned by the government, issued to the individual serviceman and taken up again when he ends his service. .…
18 Mar 2009, 12:24
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What, you mean I made another mistake? My God, say it isn't so. .…
18 Mar 2009, 12:23
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Those 'other firearms' include fully automatic weapons and crew-served artillery, Doubtful Tim. .…
18 Mar 2009, 12:21
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Sorry Doubtful Tim, the one I was wondering how long it would take someone to trot out was the 'do you think that nuclear weapons should be legal?' The answer too that is, mostly t…
18 Mar 2009, 12:19
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Ah yes, I was wondering how long it would take someone to trot this one out. .…
18 Mar 2009, 08:23
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They are trying to teach helplessness to his generation. Why prepare to fight if you've already lost ahead of time? Just do what they say. .…
18 Mar 2009, 08:18
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I am unaware of having made any particular display of emotion: in fact, I have been quite calm and dispassionate all evening. I have found that when someone, out of the blue, star…
18 Mar 2009, 08:14
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No doubt. And still: rednecks are subject to more racial stereotypes than negros. The South shall rise again. The West has yet to rise. .…
18 Mar 2009, 06:51
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None of them are: it has been illegal for a civilian to own a firearm in SF for some time now. .…
18 Mar 2009, 06:48
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There has to be some degree of ignorance of history for people to even think it is a good idea. Also we swim in a sea of propaganda, or most of us do. It is amazing, really, how g…
18 Mar 2009, 06:46
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But how can this be? It is basically illegal to own a weapon in San Francisco. How old are you, man? .…
18 Mar 2009, 05:11
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But easy to attribute to Fear Of The Lower Orders, or the Southerners (in Italy). No there aren't. Washington DC has 400,000 people. Tucson AZ has 400,000 people. Tucson AZ has, l…
18 Mar 2009, 05:10
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You think that Christians think that? He says 'turn the other cheek', that is, one time. He doesn't say keep on turning again and again like some kind of bobbly-head critter on th…
18 Mar 2009, 05:01
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Not just that: it was the stated intent of the amendment from the beginning. These are additional reasons, and good ones. But they are not the primary reason why the amendment was…
18 Mar 2009, 04:56
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Craig Brewer writes: I am as fervent a supporter of the right to arm oneself as anyone, and I thought we were armed to protect ourselves from the government. Where do you get this…
18 Mar 2009, 03:40
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What did he say about pedophilia exactly again? That well-raised boys wouldn't put up with that kind of crap, they'd kick and fight and you couldn't actually rape them quitely? I t…
18 Mar 2009, 03:23
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Dunno, here in the Hayfork Valley people are heavily armed, and reasonably polite. Even the hippies are heavily armed and measurably less noxious than hippies tend to be. What the…
18 Mar 2009, 03:16
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I did too, but he showed no sign of having read them. .…
18 Mar 2009, 00:53
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Cite. I know of one instance where this happened, in Tombstone AZ, where it was pretty blatantly enforced against one of the factions vying for control of the town, and was directl…
18 Mar 2009, 00:48
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