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Gwern Branwen · 20 May 2009, 22:15 · from 2009-May.txt.gz

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From: gwern0 at gmail.com (Gwern Branwen)
Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 18:15:29 -0400
Subject: (urth) Fw: Re: (no subject)
In-Reply-To: <10049.67.142.130.43.1242857572.squirrel at brunians.org>
References: <4247.79814.qm at web81404.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
	<10049.67.142.130.43.1242857572.squirrel at brunians.org>
Message-ID: <cbf55b100905201515l48098605w1ad99c2a54be214b at mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 6:12 PM,  <brunians at brunians.org> wrote:
> Are there more dead people or living people?

"There is no category of human activity in which the dead do not
outnumber the living many times over. Most beautiful children are
dead. Most soldiers, most cowards. The fairest women and the most
learned men?all are dead?Who can say how intently they listen as we
speak, or for what word?"

(Severian, _Citadel of the Autarch_)

-- 
gwern

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