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Adam Thornton · 20 May 2009, 22:26 · from 2009-May.txt.gz

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From: adam at io.com (Adam Thornton)
Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 17:26:32 -0500
Subject: (urth) Fw: Re: (no subject)
In-Reply-To: <6441.67.142.130.43.1242858108.squirrel at brunians.org>
References: <4247.79814.qm at web81404.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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	<cbf55b100905201515l48098605w1ad99c2a54be214b at mail.gmail.com>
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On May 20, 2009, at 5:21 PM, brunians at brunians.org wrote:

> Nope.
>
> There are more living people.

Hey!  This is now, that will be then!

> Dead people are not.

Not people?

Why am I thinking of the Jonathan Coulton song, "Re: Your Brains" ?

"I'm not a monster, Tom....
  Well, technically I am.
  I guess I am."

Adam

>> 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_)
>

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